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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Sorry for staying the obvious but ESOL kids are fluent in a foreign language. Instead of seeing them as an educational hinderance look at the huge benefits. Search for relevant foreign newspapers online covering a major event in history or geography or social studies. Set reading lists of books from country of origin. Discuss how western medias portray of a country or event aligns  with the local populations take. There is a lot of rich material there to mine. [/quote]

Lots of kids entering our schools are NOT fluent in a foreign language.  They are illiterate in their own language as well.[/quote]

The parents, student and siblings never speak to each other then? They obviously have a working knowledge of a common language otherwise they couldn’t function at all. Play them  a YouTube clip of a segment of a national news broadcast from their home country and they almost certainly could tell you the gist of the story. This is assuming they are old enough and absent of significant special needs that would impede that skill.[/quote]

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