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| Title | Article: Computers Help New Immigrants Learn English |
| Body | From http://www.techlearning.com/story/showArticle.php?articleID=193401813 Computers Help New Immigrants Learn English Larry Ferlazzo November 1, 2006 “You haven’t really lived,” I told one of my colleagues at the end of a school day last year, “until you’ve tried teaching a group of high school age pre-literate students how to use a computer and the Internet for the first time – on a day when the school’s server keeps crashing!” Two thousand Hmong refugees have arrived in Sacramento over the past year-and-a-half, with most of their high school age youth attending Luther Burbank High School, the school where I teach. They join the 1400 other English Language Learners already there. It was, and continues to be, an extraordinary opportunity. Much of the successful teaching of English at our school is built around the concept that one of the best ways for students to become better readers is to read high-interest books of their own choosing. However, pre-literate students, obviously, cannot read, and so do not have this option. In response to that challenge, we created a before- and after-school Computer Lab program attended by over one hundred recent immigrant students (Hmong and non-Hmong). Students were able to access thousands of free audio and animated books and other reading and speaking activities linked to my web page. Five months after the computer lab began, English Language Learners participating scored a 50 percent gain on reading comprehension assessments than did English Language Learners who did not come to the Lab. Read the entire article at http://www.techlearning.com/story/showArticle.php?articleID=193401813 . |
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