Monday, December 19, 2011

Emmanuel Adjei-Boateng, Grand Forks, column: Let’s help immigrant children learn English

Researchers are working on new strategies to help teachers and their ESL students learn better, since English is necessary for all their studies and development. - - Donna Poisl

By Emmanuel Adjei-Boateng

GRAND FORKS — Immigration is changing the population profile of students in the United States. There are more children of immigrant parentage in the schools today than ever before. Some have limited English language proficiency, while others may not speak English at all.

This presents a challenge to both the students and teachers.

Schooling in a new country becomes challenging for the immigrant children due to many reasons. Primarily, they may lack the needed proficiency in English to cope with their academic work.
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