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Welcome to English Blast!
The English-language Enrichment Program for Bilingual Children in Japan
| Thank you for visiting our website. We hope you'll find the ideas and materials here helpful, and we welcome your comments and suggestions. Write to us for information about our listserv (e-mail group) for sharing ideas and finding other people interested in forming English Blast groups, or to request a presentation in your area. |
The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be ignited.
-- Plutarch
-- Plutarch
| If you are committed to your bilingual child’s education in Japan, form an English Blast group and launch your child into a lifetime of learning! |
| All material on this site is copyright © 2006 by Holly Thompson and Lynda Gomi. All rights reserved. |
English Blast -- the cooperative, parent-taught
program of enrichment education designed to
provide bilingual, intercultural children in Japan
with an exciting year-round English-language
learning environment.
Easily adaptable, English Blast meets the needs
of after-school groups and English-language
learning circles throughout Japan.
Any enthusiastic English-speaking parent --
mother or father; employed full time, part-time
or stay-at-home; experienced teacher or novice;
non-native or native English speaker -- can start
an English Blast group. The information in this
website will help you begin.
program of enrichment education designed to
provide bilingual, intercultural children in Japan
with an exciting year-round English-language
learning environment.
Easily adaptable, English Blast meets the needs
of after-school groups and English-language
learning circles throughout Japan.
Any enthusiastic English-speaking parent --
mother or father; employed full time, part-time
or stay-at-home; experienced teacher or novice;
non-native or native English speaker -- can start
an English Blast group. The information in this
website will help you begin.
ENGLISH BLAST!