8/20/06 * Daily Progress [full story]
In terms of what happens inside classrooms, knowing how to inspire ESOL students to want to learn English can be a challenge.
“Hispanic kids born in the U.S. get stuck in between languages,” said Courtney Stewart, instructional coordinator for Albemarle schools’ international and ESOL program. “We need to teach them the academic language spoken in the classroom, which is English.”
Bev Ingram, an ESOL teacher at Agnor-Hurt Elementary in Albemarle, said her students are willing and anxious to grasp English.
The key to engaging them is to bring their culture into the classroom so they see that they contribute something unique, she said.
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