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| Title | Schools See Increase in Non-Native English Speakers |
| Body | From http://www.eagletribune.com/nhnews/local_story_309094403 Schools see increase in non-native English speakers By Margo Sullivan , Staff writer Eagle-Tribune November 5, 2006 As several Massachusetts school districts are experiencing increasing numbers of English language learners (ELLs), officials are making strides to meet the needs of their new students. The criteria for ESOL services is based on whether a child learned a language other than English first or is living in a home where he or she is exposed to another language, through grandparents, for example. While children typically need between three and five years to learn a social vocabulary, she said, they take five to eight years to acquire an academic vocabulary. Salem (MA) Superintendent Michael Delahanty said his district has added one full-time and one part-time ESOL-certified teacher over the past two years due to better identification of children already in school, not only to an influx of new students, he said. He also said that children, especially in elementary grades, have done better in ESOL programs than they did in bilingual education classes. "The concept of ESOL, as opposed to bilingual education, is immersion, so we create the structure that requires the student to be thrown into the deep end of the pool immediately," he said. "They're given support. It's very good support, but not a lot of support." Read the full article at http://www.eagletribune.com/nhnews/local_story_309094403 . |
| Source | The Eagle-Tribune (Massachussetts) |
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