Language Enhancement Program
New Life Academy of Excellence concentrates on Chinese as a
bilingual program along with our regular Harcourt curriculum. We chose
Chinese as our language enhancement program in addition to standard
English for the following reasons
- The Chinese culture is one of the oldest in the world. According to
studies the Chinese language is the number one spoken language in the
world.
- Studies indicate that students who took a foreign language course
had higher SAT/ACT scores than those that did not have such an
experience. Language learning is a unique exercise of mind, helping
develop logical and analytical patterning system (left-brain process).
Learning Chinese can actually improve your mental ability. Unlike the
alphabet-based western languages, the written Chinese language is a
language of symbols/pictures. Learning to recognize Chinese characters
is basically a right-brain process.
- Learning Chinese characters has been used to improve the
intelligence of children with genetic disabilities. Its effects were
profound and significant.
- China’s tremendous economic growth and emergence as a cultural and
political leader has increased the need for the United States to educate
American students who can speak Chinese proficiently and can
demonstrate an understanding of Chinese culture.
- The demand for business people who know Chinese (Mandarin) is skyrocketing.
- New Life Academy of Excellence’s goal is to be instrumental in
meeting this need by producing bi-lingual students who are not only
fluent in both English and Chinese, but who also will be able to
function in both languages academically, intellectually and socially.