Word: spanishness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Amigos program currently has 247 students, 121 of whom are native Spanish speakers. More are on a waiting list. Albert Giroux, public information director for the Cambridge public schools, says demand for the program runs about even between English and Spanish-speaking parents...
Students and parents interviewed hailed the program as a success. Jason Nowlan, a sixth grader in his seventh year in Amigos, says that while he does not understand every word of the Spanish-language lessons, he is able to "piece it together." He says he did not find it confusing to switch languages weekly...
Jose Perez, a sixth grader in Amigos, says he has formed friendships with students of English-speaking and Spanish-speaking backgrounds...
Nowlan says he traveled to Puerto Rico with Amigos last year and attended a school where he was able to communicate in Spanish...
Carolann M. Nowlan, a native English speaker, says she doesn't expect her son Jason to become completely fluent of Spanish. Nowlan says she enrolled her son in the program so that he can "get [his] feet wet in the experience of learning a language...