Return-Path: <nifl-womenlit@literacy.nifl.gov> Received: from literacy (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by literacy.nifl.gov (8.10.2/8.10.2) with SMTP id h1CI7xP28344; Wed, 12 Feb 2003 13:07:59 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2003 13:07:59 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <1045073163.3e4a8d0b81659@webmail.mills.edu> Errors-To: alcrsb@langate.gsu.edu Reply-To: nifl-womenlit@literacy.nifl.gov Originator: nifl-womenlit@literacy.nifl.gov Sender: nifl-womenlit@literacy.nifl.gov Precedence: bulk From: Lynne Wilkins <lwilkins@mills.edu> To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-womenlit@literacy.nifl.gov> Subject: [NIFL-WOMENLIT:2485] X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Status: O Content-Length: 1812 Lines: 41 Hello to all, In response to Daphne's questions about women and the beginning of instruction with non English speakers, I have a few thoughts to share. We don't accept students who are not literate in their own language or in English but we do accept students with very low levels of English (basically some knowledge of the alphabet) and with very low levels of previous education. We teach them how to put papers into their notebooks, how to write HW assignments onto a daily HW log that lives in their notebook, how to ask the basic questions (Please speak slower, please repeat, what does ___ mean, etc.) by having those posted in the classroom and having the teacher point to them and say them and have the students repeat before getting their question answered. We limit any L1 in the classroom unless the teacher asks another student to translate or explain. We work on getting the lowest level students to trust the instructors and to believe that the teachers will see the student non understand and will get the student to understand and to not go home frustrated. We have adapted an intensive English approach (22 1/2 hours a week, classes every day or evening) from a well educated international student body to an academically challenged immigrant student body. Our student make great gains and move through our 7 levels depending on the amount of their funding. Students stay from 44 to 60 to 76 weeks. Hope this helps the discussion. -- Lynne Wilkins, Academic Coordinator English Center for International Women at Mills College P.O. Box 9968, Oakland, CA 94613 (510)430-2285 lwilkins@mills.edu ---------------------------------------------------- This mail sent through Mills College Webmail Service Available to all Mills computer users at: https://webmail.mills.edu
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