how about English immersion, teach them quickly
After more than 11 years in Los Angeles public schools, Dasha Cifuentes still isn’t speaking or writing English at grade level. The U.S. native, whose parents are Mexican immigrants, was raised in a Spanish-speaking household and she acknowledges that the two languages get confused in her mind.
Anchor baby.
Why should teachers focus on regular white kids then they can focus on foreigners who will soon overwhelm Republican voters?
No intiende o save...
Wait.
This kid isn’t competent or confident in english?
She’s in the 10 grade?
So, repeat and rinse...
We need to pass a law to make all Americans speak Spanish.
It is unfair to these illegal aliens that they have to come here and deal with English speakers. Where is our compassion? How can they do the work Americans won’t do if they can’t take instructions in their native tongue?
Any American who won’t speak Spanish is a racist.
Dasha is embarrassed.
Think how legal residents feeel.
I teach in the South, and we had our older male auto shop teacher publicly rip our ESL teacher a new one for dropping off a new student that could not speak one word of English at his door.
There is no need to speak English in Los Angeles. Everywhere you go in Los Angeles there is a at least one person there who speaks Spanish. Some of the Korean immigrants are bypassing English and learning Spanish instead because Spanish is easier than English.
Does this include Al Sharpton?
From what I can tell, she comes from a multilingual learning environment that would display a relaxed mishmash of "ingrain the use whatever language works for you, word-by-word". Part of more advanced language learning (i.e., beyond middle school or thereabouts), will be more effective when purity of thought is able to be employed, unblemished by momentarily "giving up" to revert to a different language for something that's supposedly easier or closer at hand (and tongue). That embodies the opposite of a challenge. It coddles weakness.
English is not my native language. In the household where I grew up, my parents rarely spoke English. We legally immigrated to the US when I was two. Only after the four of five children had left the house for college did they speak predominantly English, so my youngest brother's friends coming over to the house wouldn't feel he was someone too weird to want to have as a friend.
I believe I was able to develop adequate English language skills by reading authors that were presenting relatively detailed-yet-concise narratives.
Although it needn't be everyone's cup of tea coming from my type of situation, for me, I determined to read several of George Will's books. He went to a school building I saw regularly where I went to college, so I felt we were at least partly, similarly grounded.
HF
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