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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: epicure who wrote (105122)2/28/2009 8:13:14 AM
From: Lane3   of 542501
 
You might want to recall that when YOU took a foreign language you'd had years of instruction in English. You understood grammar. You knew how to read.

I do understand that. I have posted about my experiences with ESL and the shock of discovering that many of the students were illiterate and couldn't learn English the way the way I learned other languages. And my inability to figure out how to proceed.

Sure, you're right for a kid who came here as a teenager. That would be effectively the same as the problem I found with illiterate adults. But I specifically said " after, say, eight or ten years of education in English." If a kid is born into a Spanish speaking household and starts school as legally required when he is old enough, he is not much more likely to be illiterate in English than a kid from an English-speaking family. You'd have to be awfully stupid or unmotivated or poorly educated to not be literate after going through grammar and middle school. I realize that happens, but then those kids flunk out or drop out.
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