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4 thoughts on “Let’s Collect Some Data on Retention Rates”
A student journalist at school just gave me a questionnaire to fill out on why students should take Chinese. Then I found out it is for an article they are going to publish in the school paper titled, “5 classes you should take before you graduate” based on a survey of seniors. My Chinese class was one of the 5 chosen. That was very nice confirmation for me that students feel the class is valuable to them.
Nice! Think it would’ve been chosen if it were a Chinese grammar class, or one that focused only on the characters? Probably not.
Because they can see their own progress! Thank you, Ben. Thank you all you TPRS teachers who have refused to give in to the naysayers. You have paved the way for us newbies to find success in our teaching.
Just in case people are interested in foreign language enrollment in their states. This information from ACTFL is helpful although somewhat dated now.
It is interesting to know there are about 9 million FL students in the US.
http://www.actfl.org/sites/default/files/pdfs/ReportSummary2011.pdf