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...April as president and heir apparent. In the past few months on the board, Idei persuaded Ohga, who has always been partial to Schulhof, that it was time for his protege to go. Like Morita and Ohga, Idei is a cosmopolitan blend of East and West. He speaks fluent English and French, loves gadgets and rock 'n' roll, and favors stylish Italian attire. A high-energy executive who has trouble sitting still, Idei navigates Tokyo streets in a Jaguar sports car. His vision for Sony goes well beyond Walkmans and vcrs to future generations of products that can combine...
...think it is a great idea," Suk said. "There are many students who are fluent enough in two languages who would perhaps want to take those courses...
...minutes, Cao must speed them through the baffling vocabulary they have encountered. Energy, gasoline, electron, molecule, dilute, bubble, wave, atom--all new words to be explained in Mandarin. And, for a slender youth in the front row, in Cantonese. In three years, under state rules, newcomers are to be fluent enough to graduate into all-day mainstream classes. In practice, few are-and schools are caught between researchers who decry the unrealistic expectations and parents who blame the bilingual programs for not fulfilling them...
...classes within three years, the researchers found that children who had six years of bilingual education in well-designed programs performed far better on standardized English tests in 11th grade. Even with bilingual classroom aides and esl training, children who are plunged into an English environment before they are fluent "are just left out of the discussion in their mainstream classes," according to Professor Virginia Collier. "It shows up in the long term, when the academic going gets tough...
...arrivals have an easier time now than when he arrived in Wausau in 1979. "I struggled more, but I'm moving up O.K. I'm getting used to the life-style of this country," he says. Wausau fifth-grader Chia Vang arrived five years ago and is currently fluent in English but still finds it tough to fit in at school: "I try to make friends with Americans, but it's hard because sometimes I'm shy to ask them...