Dr. Lang’s Chinese
Bilingual School Pre-K Program is a two-way immersion Chinese and English
program for children 2 to 4 years old and of any nationalities. It is specially
designed to stimulate, develop and exercise the young minds with linguistic,
socio-emotional, cognitive, and aesthetic skills in two languages.
The
Chinese Curriculum
The interest in learning
to understand and speak Chinese is fostered in the early stage of Chinese
learning and gradually guided to the written form of the language in the
aspects of phoneme awareness, sound discrimination, whole word recognition and
sentence utterances. Politeness expressions and arithmetic are also taught as
an integral part of the journey to the future Chinese language education.
Singing, chanting, recitation, story-telling, hands-on craft are among many
other interactive methods that we employ to teach children of this young age.
The
English Curriculum
The focus of the Pre-K
English Program is to teach pre-school children to learn to read phonetically
before they begin their formal school education. We adopt the main concepts and
textbooks of the kindergarten curriculum of School of Tomorrow, Kindergarten
with ACE and CHRISTI. With the Accelerated Christian Education (A.C.E) program,
each child is given the Reading Readiness Test and the Coordination Development
Tests before being placed into a reading program. These tests determine a
child’s maturity level and basic motor skills as well as academic
preparedness.