I'm responding to the whole group because Betsy's school's system blocked my reply.
English is my primary language, but I taught ESL to people of all ages and
social/educational backgrounds in my past life.
Immersion gets quicker results in the new language, but in some circumstances
dual-language is necessary for communication.
Donna Williams
May '07 SLIS graduate
University of North Texas
DWilliams6856@att.net
Betsy Ruffin <Betsy.Ruffin@CLEBURNE.K12.TX.US> wrote:
For anyone on this list who learned English as a second language,
just-out-of-curiosity question(s) for you:
Did you learn by emersion or by dual language class? As a result of your
experience, do you feel ESL students learn English faster, better, whatever by
emersion or by dual language?
Betsy Ruffin
librarian-technologist
Cleburne ISD
Cleburne, TX
betsy.ruffin@cleburne.k12.tx.us
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