China Initiative News: Language Schools
Linda Christas College has announced that it is in the final stages of negotiation with prominent language schools in Taizhou, the People's Republic of China (PRC).
Lynn King, Linda Christas College's liaison in the PRC, has been working with several institutions who are interested in designing campus experiences using an American cultural model.
Linda Christas College is looking forward to the opportunity to expand its programs in the PRC, since that emerging nation is one that is, and will continue to be, an important 21st century US partner.
It is difficult for language schools on the Mainland to create a genuine American community for the purpose of English immersion training. There are so many variables when dealing with the cultural/language mix so as to make it difficult for Chinese nationals, even those who have spent significant time in the United States, to understand what makes American English and culture so unique.
It is the hope of Chinese language schools that experiences similar to those currently available only at institutions such as Middlebury College in Vermont, will be created by Linda Christas College in China. Only this time, the reverse process will be taking place. Whereas Middlebury College provides American students with a Chinese immersion experience in the US, Linda Christas will be providing Chinese students with an American English language immersion experience in the People's Republic.
The hope is to bring the two nations closer together by parlaying the initial sharing of linguistic and cultural information into significant international good will. Author, Ann Voisin, PhD
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03/27/2009 
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I had trouble getting used to Linda Christas at first. Then I realized that whatever they do, including slowing me down so that I can internalize information instead of regurgitating and then forgetting it, gives me what I need to grow into a thoughtful person.
I'm sure that's what the Chinese see that is so attractive in the LC programs.
Acceleration is oftentimes the exact opposite of education.
I know, I was always an accelerated student in public school, and my parents were so proud. But, it wasn't until we learned that acceleration or gifted programs prize speed of learning often instead of what LC calls "integrated learning" that I really started to enjoy and appreciate what education can be.
More to the point here, I didn't begin to learn how to use language until I enrolled in Linda Christas high school.
Great to see my school being recognized as valuable by another culture.
Wes - Senior Class President 
03/28/2009
This is amazing. I am a Chinese American and have many relatives still in the PR.
The desire there is so strong to emulate the culture of the US. With that emulation it is believed will come all the other things that they see in the media.
My daughter is currently a Linda Christas student, and is so much happier than she was with her public school.
The assembly line teaching that those public schools are forced to adopt is in many ways so detrimental to developing wisdom in children.
Well, this is not meant to be a criticism of a public school system that is beyond any one individual to change.
It is rather to congratulate Linda Christas for yet another step toward bringing unity to the brotherhood and sisterhood of mankind.