Thursday, April 05, 2012

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.
http://www.tennessean.com/article/20120404/WILLIAMSON01/304040048/Lessons-make-English-language-American-culture-far-less-foreign
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