TLEGAR NEWS, Jun A2 je 8, 1983 Co Th ht . CasNews Photos “by Ron Norman owen vin LANGUAGE IMMERSION - It only works with youngsters By ERIK PEDERSEN Many people who struggled in high school with French or Russian may have trouble believing it, but it is actually possible to learn a second language. The technique is simple and effective, does not require painful vocabulary drills, and sindents completing the progi are fully bil equally well without a trace of foreign acti In effect, they become native speakers of two languages and can switch back and forth between the two, with complete facility and fluency. There's only one catch. For most of the people reading this article, it is too late. It works fine for five-to-12- -year- olds, but not in later years. The method of instruction is called “Early Partial Im- mersion,” and it takes advantage of the tendency of children to imitate and to speak as they are spoken to. If children hear English from one parent ‘and Portuguese from the other, they will speak in English to the one, and in Portuguese to the other. In the same way if an English-speaking child goes to a school and finds all her classmates speaking in French, she will learn French without difficulty and will generally speak it as well as her classmates within one year. - Early partial immersion is somewhat similar to the case of a foreigner learning English as a second language. The young child learns readily, while his parents speak haltingly and often with a strong foreign accent. But early partial immersion differs from programs teaching English as a second language in that all the children will be anglophones, and only the teacher, at firat, will be . bilingual. So, the children will continue to speak English on the’ playground or at home, and will hear English on the television or in church or at neighbor's. But for the few hours a day the child is in school, he will hear only Russian spoken (or Portuguese, or French — the technique is the same regardless of the language of im- mersion chosen). He will learn to count in Rugsign, learn the names of the colors in Russian, sing Russian songs,: and tell time in Russian. When he does calisthenics, the teacher will tell him in Russian to touch his b: the instruction is in English, and half in Russian. This enables the child to learn to ‘read, write and spell in both languages. Arithmetic and science will be taught in ‘English from Grade 1 onwards and will follow the standard English curriculum and existing textbooks. . The early: start for language acquisition is crucial, because after the “critical age" of 12, a child generally lacks the ability to acquire native fluency in a language. On the other hand, her greater intellectual maturity enables more * yapid learning. In the case of early partial immersion, this later learning extends and amplifies the firm foundation laid before the fourth grade. Because so much of the acquisition of English language skills occurs outside the classroom, and because much of what is learned in Russian is transferable to English skills, . the program results in no delay in English language skills, A test of bilingual French-English students and regular program English-only students has shown that the fluent French speakers had “significantly better” English compre- hension than the English-only students. The survey was | Student Column By Krystal Bradshaw This week is Hire-A-Student Week all across Canada. Student Employment Centres have activities planned to draw attention to the many students who are seeking summer empl iastic, eager and hard working. ‘They will doa job ‘for an hour, a day, or a week. The Student Centre has over 200 Castlegar students with varied it 4 and Some of the activities which have been planned for this area include a golf tournament which is to take place at the Birchbank course on Monday, June 13, To register call the Student Employment Office in Trail at 368-9126. Instead of a registration fee, golfers are tohire a student caddy for the afternoon. Students are also participating in a Sport-A-Thon for jobs. A student is sponsored a job for an agreed upon wage if he reaches his goal in a sporting activity of his choice, To wrap up the week's activities there will be a draw for a dinner from the Kootenay Cattle Company. Everyone who places a job order with the Student Office eligible for the draw. The Student Centre has a wealth of information available for the asking — information on resumes, job search techniques and tips. Information is also available on the various funding programs, . . the child, after some. yt f this program, will gain complete proficiency in Russian, without losing any know- ledge of English which he acquired, and continues to acquire,; « outside the school, How is the children's time spent? In kindergarten, they will hear only Russian and by the second half of the kinder- garten year will be able to ask and answer in d among Grade 3 students at the public schools in Edmonton. Jim’ Cummins, of the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, explained that children “begin to compare and contrast the ways in which their two languages organize reality, for example by word orders, grammatical struc- tures, vocabulary, pronunciation, etc.” _ Parents and teachers, he said, may be able to encourage Russian. In Grade 1 and subsequent years, the amount of Russian ° instruction is gradually reduced until by Grade 4 about half DESPITE COURT RULING of ies and diffe in the ways language can‘be used to express their thoughts. The more competence a child has in an immersion language, the more insight he has into English. RCMP continues to use writs VANCOUVER (CP) — A court ruling that writs of assistance are unlawful won't stop RCMP from using the documents to enter and search B.C. homes, says the head of Vancouver RCMP * drug operations. Insp. Harry Wallace said this week police will continue to use writs — a powerful form of search warrant — but “sel ly and with ex- Community response has ‘gené: been fi to the opening of an office in Castlegar. Job orders have been slow in coming, but it is hoped they will piek up. Hire a student for the summer and help: support the area’s many eager student employees. treme caution” until an ap- peal is heard of County Court Judge Stu Leggatt’s ruling last week. Leggatt ruled that the ob- taining and using the docu- ment violates sections of the Charter of Rights, Wallace said sending a squad to investigate drug crimes without writs, “is like sending an officer to inves- tigate crime with his hands tied in knots behind his back.” He said at most, about 25 officers in B.C. are holders of writs of assistance, Writs are obtained under the federal Narcotics Control Act by police to enter and search the homes of people whom investigators reason- ably believe may be in poses- sion of drugs. In the Justice Minister - his agent applies for a writ, a judge under the act, is ob- -liged to grant one. The docu- ments are granted to indivi- dual polive officers and give them sweeping powers of search and seizure. There is no pericdic review of the is- suance of the writ. Unlike a search warrant, the writ has an unlimited life span and can apply to any investigation. A search warrant is grant- ed by a judge after police show a specific need to enter a home on a particular in- vestigation. Wallace said he has not re- ceived instructions from the federal government to dis- continue the use of writs of assistance as a result of the B.C. decision. Leggatt ruled the writ un- constitutional during a trial in which Roy Cuff wes charged with possession of heroin for the purpose “of trafficking. Al group plans. to ‘adopt’ By DIANE STRANDBERG Staff Writer Castlegar may be thous- ands of miles away from Namibia in southern Africa, where a young man has been held ina prison camp without trial for five years. But that ders of the El Salvador * Human Right Commission. And he explained that pen and paper will be the vcap- ons used as members write letters’ to government auth- orities — even members of the clergy — notifying t! them of the won't stop the 34 bers of the Castlegar branch of Am- nesty’ International from fighting to see that the prisoner of conscience is given justice — and if poss- ible, released. The battle is just begin- ning for the local Amnesty members who have yet to find out if their “adopted” prisoner meets AI criteria, But if he is ‘found to be ment of the young man. Using every lead and: con- tact, the Castlegar group will try and compile a dossier-on the prisoner so they can use the information to prove’ to South African authorities that the man has committed no real crime. Amnesty International, which was founded in 1961 by an Englishman, Peter Benen- Castlegar members will carry out their first assault on the South African auth- orities who are detaining “If you pursue every con- tact you can... and get the word out that you are inter- ested, you'd be surprised at . what you can accomplish,” AI representative Peter Greg- ory said in an interview this weekend. Gregory, the chairperson of the Canadian section of English-speaking branch of Amnesty International, was in town Saturday to address local members during their annual general meeting. Gregory is the first AI representative to meet with the fledgling Castlegar branch of Amnesty Inter- national. And it was his job this weekend to outline the responsibilities the group faces once they “adopt” a prisoner. As well, Gregory helped draw up a battle plan in the fight for freedom for the young prisoner. “Information is ammuni- tion,” noted Gregory, quoting from Marianela Garcia Villas, one of the last surviving foun. son, - is working toward the release of about 5,000 men and women who -have been detained for their beliefs, color, race or religion but who have committed no particular crime for which they would be charged in Western jursiprudence. In March, the . Castlegar branch applied to become a full adoption group and once the investigation and paper- work are complete, they will begin to contact the prison- er's relatives, close friends and governmenit authorities. It appears that the local members have a long, hard road ahead of them but they have some of ATI's many successes to give them hope. Gregory recalled the three years he and other AI members worked to free a medical doctor who was imprisoned in Argentina. Armed with a name, the prisoner’s whereabouts and plenty of determination, Gregory managed to accum- ulate a file of information. Finally, in 1981, with the help of AI, the doctor was flown with his family to Calgary where he and Greg- ory, also a medical doctor, became good friends. I | | same stem, MR. LICK is here . «and there... For the uninitiated, Mr. Lick is 38-year-old Bob ~¢, 3 NATURE'S HANDIWORK... . CasNews staffer Kay ‘ Shields examines one of nature's handiworks — an unusual bouquet of tulips all growing from the —CotNewsPhoto aii talk - and there. legar's first healthy. g ice cream man. And if public reaction to his first few days of selling cool treats out of his homemade ice cream cart is any indication — he's going to be a hit. A former sales manager for Pitney. Bowes in Saskatoon, Bob and his family have only been in Castlegar for two weeks. But that was long enough for him to see that we needed an ice-cream man. “I need something to do," adds Bob. He explained that the special bike he has rigged up to haul the ice cream cooler around town will also keep him outdoors and y a “If ride the bike in summer, I'll be in good shape.” So how does a former sales manager from the dusty prairies end up in Castlegar. selling 16 cream out of a cart? Bob says he simply had ;had enough of life on the prairies — “éspecially with the tough economy.” Tired of trying to keep up with the Jonos, tee says he'was looking ‘for a change: in lifestyle. Last summer he ‘and duh) his ‘wife, Suranne, and y yr area on ate way to the coast for'a holiday. They liked Castlegar so much they decided to move here. “liked Castlogar and I liked the area,” says Bob, So two months ago he came dut here to scout for a job anda home. He returned to Saskatoon just long enough to pack everything he owned into a U-Haul and move here. That \ was about two weeks ago. Without a job and needing to support a family, he decided to become Castlegar's official “ice cream man". But what's it like being without a job and moving to a new place? “That's never really scared, me too much,” he says. “If a guy really wants to work, there's work around.” Bob says he decided on Mr. Lick as a name because “I needed something catchy.” “It should be fun,” he added. “T'll meet a lot of people”. And who knows, by the land a permanent job. “Isee a lot of kids around with their tongues hanging out and Mr. Lick’s going to do it for them,” he says confidently. He adds quickly, “I'm hoping for a long hot summer." MEANWHILE, word on the street is that a new tenant will be in the old Anderson Insurance location on 4th St. by this weekend. However, as yet there is no identity for the mystery tenant. THE LIQUOR Distribution Branch has held its twice yearly review of listings and listings in the liquor stores — though all won't be available in Castlegar... ' Among the new listings a wines — four from France, from Germany and Italy, and one from Austria. Other new listings en B.C. liquor store shelves will include one imported and one domestic vodka, one white rum, one cognac and one imported liqueur. . ed through this end of the summer he may will have a total of 21 new are 12 new imported table three from Australia, two MP wins Peace Award By The Canadian Press The 1983 Peace Award of the World Federalists of Can- ada will be given to Edmonton South MP Douglas Roche for his work as international chair- man of Parliamentarians for World Order. The order, an international network of 600 legistators in 30 countries, works to streng- ” then international institutions and to secure world peace. Roche, an author, lecturer and Progressive Conservative pokesman on international levelopment, led.a-five-conti-. “nent delegation of sénior par- liamentarians to Moscow and Washington lest year to urge Police Briefs Castlegar RCMP are step- ping up patrols at Syringa Creek Provincial Park camp- ground following a number of complaints by campers. RCMP would like members of the public to note that the Park Act states that persons causing a disturbance or refusing to leave are subject toa fine of up to $2,000 or six months in jail. As well, unregistered vehi- cles may be towed away. * 2° « Police are also investigat- ing the theft of fire extin- guishers, a camera and other items following a break-in at Raspberry Lodge Saturday night. Value of the items stolen was estimated at $300. . 8 @ Approximately 5 a.m. Sun- day morning, a vehicle driven by Janet Lebedoff of Castle- gar struck a power pole on Columbia Avenue, knocking out power in the area. Damage estimate to the vehicle is unknown, police say. There was no report of ‘injuries. . . In all, RCMP investigated 35 complaints over the week- end. . Province of British Cohumbla ATTENTION COMMISSIONERS FOR TAKING AFFIDAVITS All appointments made prior to October 1, 1982,} will be cancelled October 1, 1983. Appli- cations and guidelines for renewing appoint- ments are available at any goverament agency or court registry, or: Court Services Headquarters 6th Floor, Law Courts $50 Burdett Avenuc Victoria, B.C. V8W 1B4 Telephone: 387-1521 Progress on nuclear arms re- duction. The Peace Award will be presented Sunday at the Fed- eralists’ annual conference at Concordia University in Mon- treal. * * . The Northern Ontario com- munity of New Liskeard, pop- ulation 5,000, has decided to invite one of its best-known former citizens to its 80th an- niversary party this summer. Erin Fleming, former com- panion of the late comedian Groucho’: Marz, is being ‘sought by towii council for the community’s birthday cele- bration July 1. But Glen Thompson, the councilman who proposed the invitation, said Fleming may not make the party, especially since council doesn't know where to send the invitation. Fleming, 42, brought New Liskeard some international fame earlier this year during the lengthy legal battle over the assets of the Marx estate. Fleming lost the battle and “was ordered to pay the Bank of America $221,000. CTV news anchorman Har- vey Kirck, a native of the town, and Lloyd Robertson, a frequent visitor, also are in- vited: * . . British railway clerk Ray- mond Rose has been sen- tenced to 25 months in jail all for.the-sorrow of love. ~ He told a Winchester court that, because of a broken ro- mance, he drank 12. pints {about seven litres) of beer to drown his sorrow. He then hi- jacked a train with 250 pass- engers after telling the engi- neer he had.a gun. The love train rumbled along for more than 25 kilo- metres before an: inspector forced his way into the car and eventually captured Rose on foot. * *. * John F. Kennedy, Jr., a far cry from the boy in shorts and knee socks who clutched a tiny flag at his father's fune- ral in 1963, has graduated from Brown University at Providence, Rhode Island. Kennedy, 22, received a Bachelor of Arts degree in history at .Monday’s cere- ““TggAy-on the-university’s pic- tugesque-green. A plane circ- ling over the crowd of 14,500 trailed a red banner with the words Happy Graduation and Good Gluck John. The misspelled message drew smiles from es 's mother, Jacqueline Kenned: Onassis, who sat on a folding chair under a small tree with her daughter, Caroline, “Furniture Village ANNUAL SALE of High Quality Lawn Furniture (Usually cheapest in the long run.) SALE CONTINUES: WHILE STOCK LASTS We now have Waterbed Heaters, Patches, Replacement Bags, Liners, Fill/Drain Kits. INTRODUCTORY OFFER FOR YOUNG PEOPLE at Central Foods! | BARO TURKEY. 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