STARTALK 2009 - Programs in OH

Kent State University (student)

Regents STARTALK Foreign Language Academy in Arabic, Chinese, Hindi, Japanese, and Russian

The 2009 Regents STARTALK Foreign Language Academy is a 4-week immersion program offering elementary instruction in Arabic, Chinese, Hindi, Japanese, and Russian to rising juniors and seniors in Ohio high schools who are new learners of these languages. The academy will serve 58 students, and preference will be given to students from high schools that do not teach the languages offered in the Academy. The theme of the 2009 program is “My Space—Our World,” and instruction is organized around problem-solving projects. A mandatory academic year follow-up program consists of monthly mini-immersion sessions supported by distance learning.