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Community College ESL/ELL students

by Jem

Jan 1, 2012

I've been supporting ESL students in our community college's Resource Room - as best I can. Almost 20% of our student population are ESL/ELL. Is anybody else in this situation?

Most of the ESL students - regardless of age and they do vary in age - speak conversational English but conversational English is not by any means able to get them through their classes. They can do acceptably well in math but humanities courses - especially those with heavy writing - are quite difficult for them.

I've done this for 3 years now and am so discouraged. I can help to edit their papers but often their writing is almost unintelligible. Given assignments that send them on their own to an academic data base such as EBSCO is almost impossible for them - they cannot make their way through even the titles of an EBSCO article.

I try to help as best I can but we are constantly reminded by our supervisor not to help "too much" and now our supervisor does not want to look at ESL stu...See More

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