Learning a new language is challenging, requiring a student to master four basic skills–listening, reading, speaking, and writing–from scratch. And it becomes even more challenging for ESL learners.
When Kim Emch launched a free summer lunch camp for kids in Hilliard in 2007, she noticed more than half of the children were translating for their parents. What started out as a way for Emch to ...
Other than increased funding or staffing, what’s one strategy that would help a district or school better serve English ...
On a dark and wet Tuesday night in November, about a dozen people filed into a basement classroom in Hawkins Hall on the SUNY Plattsburgh campus. Helen Mitchell passed out worksheets and dove into ...
An ESL teacher for six years at Global Connections High School, Jill Weseman works with students illiterate even in their native language. Yet a year after those students arrive here and enroll in ...
Offering programming around Hispanic Heritage Month is just one way to acknowledge Latinx employees. But to support Hispanic folks long term, employers may need to consider frameworks that will help ...
When Julie Tolzman started the hunt for a new job a year ago, her main concern wasn't that she wasn’t qualified for a new position — but that she would lose the ability to communicate with coworkers ...
In the intermediate English as a Second Language class for rising fourth-graders at Cos Cob School this summer, Alvaro Vivas, Kaho Takamura and Emanuel Jaramillo and their classmates showed an ...
This story begins in December 2019, when Arzu Ozcan first moved to the United States from Turkey. "As far as I can remember," Arzu said, "two weeks later, I came to Schaumburg Library." Now a ...
There are many resources available at the University of Colorado for non-native English speakers. Options include classes for credit, non-credit classes, workshops, on-line resources, in person ...
NEW LIVES AND JOBS, BUT FEELING CONFIDENT IN AN UNFAMILIAR CULTURE CAN STILL SEEM LIKE A DAUNTING TASK TWO MAJOR STAKEHOLDERS IN SOUTH OMAHA. WANT TO HELP WORKING MEN AND WOMEN LEARN A NEW LANGUAGE SO ...
Families in the state's emergency shelter system now have a nine-month limit on their stay, following the passage of a funding bill imposing the cap. After that, they have to leave unless they qualify ...
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