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This 3 page paper reviews an article that points out the difficulties of teaching non-English speaking students in rural areas where there are no official ESL programs. Examples are provided. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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3 pages (~225 words per page)
File: RT13_SA349ESL.rtf
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The article opens with an anecdote of why one child has trouble understanding his work in other classrooms. As it turns out, teachers of ESL classes print the words whereas
teachers in other classrooms do not (2001). One can imagine that it would be daunting to have to translate something into another language and then embark on another way of
writing as well. The article presents some little known problems in the ESL domain. In the piece, the teacher simply quickly teaches this student how to write in script
(2001). She explains that it is by trial and error that her districts first ESL program to the small number of immigrants is implemented (2001). The anecdote at the
start of this article provides people with a sense of what rural schools are up against. Not used to immigrants in their communities, let alone various levels of the educational
model, teachers do not know what to do. School districts have to hire new instructors to fill the void whenever a student who does not speak English registers. Unlike urban
districts that are used to dealing with various languages, some of these school systems are in the dark. The school used as an anecdote in this article is one
located in a "corner" of Iowa (2001). The author explains that "urban school districts often have entire full-time staffs devoted to educating students with limited English skills" (Zehr, 2001,
p.6). Rural teachers have to play things by ear (2001). The article goes on to provide statistics that show that the immigrant population is spreading to areas outside of cities
(2001). The problem that rural districts have comes down to money, just as everything does in education. It is explained that "federal grant programs" designed for English-language learners do
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