Author: DANIELLE DEAVER
Publication: Winston-Salem Journal
Submitted by: Timothy Feimer
11/12/07
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CURRENT ISSUE #4
In 2002 six pilot classes in North Carolina, Spanish speaking students were taking Spanish classes. They found with the influx of workers and lack of formal school the students were not literate in their native language. The students have been speaking Spanish and English all their lives with no formal education. The program was going to teach the students how to be literate in Spanish so they could be literate in English and become truly bilingual and biliterate.
Some of the high schools and middle schools are finding the students do not know what a verb is. They can answer simple questions but the grammar is more difficult. The students seem to like the class and want to stay learning Spanish. The students staying interested in the program are getting more out of it than learning two languages. This is addressing a bigger picture, graduation and the drop out rate. The program is in thirty-five school systems in North Carolina and it keeps the students involved in their identity. They are gaining their heritage not loosing it.
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A topic addressed in the CD assigned for this week. I'll be interested in further discussion.
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