The numbers of students enrolling in these classes is rising all the time and the waiting lines are getting longer in many cities. These classes are wonderful, we need educated, English-fluent immigrants, - - Donna Poisl
More immigrants are studying English at the college
BY NANCY C. RODRIGUEZ •
When Yaslin Pupo Morera arrived in Louisville from Cuba with her husband and twin sons two years ago she couldn't speak more than a word or two in English.
"I understood nothing," said Morera.
But this fall, thanks to an English as a Second Language class offered at Jefferson Community and Technical College, Morera will take her first college-credit course in English this fall.
A growing number of newly arrived immigrants are enrolling in the community college's English as Second Language classes. Since fall 2006, ESL enrollment has increased 44 percent, from 330 to 474 students.
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