Languages key to understanding

"If a student knows three languages, they are trilingual. If a students knows two languages they are bilingual. If a student only knows one language, they are an American." Richard Dunshee, a Spanish teacher at Notre Dame High School, said this was a statement he heard while in China.

But Notre Dame High School is changing all that by becoming the only school in Iowa to teach Arabic, thanks to teachers like Ezzat Gad Elmola, a participant in the Teachers of Critical Languages Program (TCLP).

Published in the Hawk Eye Online.

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