Lessons make English language, American culture far less foreign

This English language class is teaching immigrants from several countries about our culture at the same time they are learning English.   - - Donna Poisl

Written by Bonnie Burch. The Tennessean

NOLENSVILLE — Right off the main street, with antiques stores and a feed mill that serves as a country store, several recent immigrants are learning how to tell a doctor what ails them.

Williamson County Adult Education teacher Suzanne Marley, who instructs a beginner level English language/civics class, makes a deep-chested hacking sound in front of her students, who come from such far-flung countries as India and Korea in addition to Mexico.

“Cough,” she says as she writes the word on a dry-erase board.
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