Return-Path: <nifl-esl@literacy.nifl.gov> Received: from literacy (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by literacy.nifl.gov (8.10.2/8.10.2) with SMTP id i2TFxVm25999; Mon, 29 Mar 2004 10:59:31 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2004 10:59:31 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <OF8180F158.6C9D6D70-ON85256E66.0055FD4C-85256E66.005808CF@VCU.EDU> Errors-To: listowner@literacy.nifl.gov Reply-To: nifl-esl@literacy.nifl.gov Originator: nifl-esl@literacy.nifl.gov Sender: nifl-esl@literacy.nifl.gov Precedence: bulk From: Nancy R Faux/AC/VCU <nfaux@vcu.edu> To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-esl@literacy.nifl.gov> Subject: [NIFL-ESL:10124] Re: layers of meaning X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" X-Mailer: Lotus Notes Release 6.5 September 26, 2003 Status: O Content-Length: 1588 Lines: 59 Well said, Janet. Nancy R. Faux ESOL Specialist Virginia Adult Learning Resource Center Janet Isserlis <Janet_Isserlis@brown.edu> Sent by: nifl-esl@nifl.gov 03/29/04 10:24 AM Please respond to nifl-esl@nifl.gov To Multiple recipients of list <nifl-esl@literacy.nifl.gov> cc Subject [NIFL-ESL:10121] layers of meaning Tanya I'm wondering if you have a sense of the weight and tone of your post here. For many, a word like foreigner carries the implication that someone doesn't belong in a particular place; and last I knew, driving and using a language were two very separate sets of skills. If you re-read what you've written here, I'm wondering if you might see what this strikes me - and maybe others - as offensive and anti-immigrant. I don't think that's your intention, but I do believe that our words carry weight and deliver messages that may or may not convey our intentions. Janet Isserlis >I would like to leave you all with just a thought about the reasons >for teaching English and WHY foreigners need to learn our language, >(not just to come to live in our country, living here without it,) >as you travel on your way. I have an older student in my class who >can neither write her name correctly nor her address. She doesn't >remember it, daily I ask....... She can't read period.... However I >discovered this week that she has a driver's licence and is driving >a car......... I am trying to discover where she drives exactly so I >can head the other way!! Aren't you all glad you don't live in our >county!! :) >Tanya Tweeton
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