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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]I am an ESOL teacher so I am well aware of the different types of students we have in FCPS. The person was making the point that learning English as Spanish is not that hard a transition. I made the point that it is often the Spanish speaking students who make the slowest progress, usually either because they are coming to school with having very little academic education and/[b]or because they are able to make many Spanish speaking friends so they are able to get by with little English. [/b]Also, a student in FCPS in 7th grade would not be asked to do that because they would be in self-contained ELL classes. ESOL students are very fortunate in FCPS - we have so many supports for them to help them succeed. No student is just thrown in an English class and asked to write a paragraph in English their first week of school.[/quote]

Not an ESOL teacher, but former DOD teacher who taught a number of ESOL kids.  I taught first grade.  When I had 1-3 Spanish speaking kids, they learned to speak English quickly.  iGrade 1).  One year I had seven and it took much, much, longer because they hung together.

I imagine it is very difficult with the older kids.  And, there doesn't seem to be a big incentive to learn English for many of the parents.
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I don’t think it takes these parents any longer to learn English than other low income immigrants in the past. Now, if the current Spanish speaking immigrants were living in backwoods Montana, then they would have no other choice.

Didn’t NYC have newspapers in Yiddish, Russian, Italian for a long time?

US immigrants (they like to call themselves “ex-pats”) to Mexico expect service in English often. It takes time to learn a new language as an adult, and for the immigrants here, time is money. [/quote]

I think the difference is that the former immigrants knew their kids must speak English.  Not sure some of the present ones do--but, as a PP said, they work hard and time is money.[/quote]

I think sometimes there is also the hope to go back to their countries. They might see there time as temporary. 
I forgot to add above, that many Latin American immigrants of indigenous origin also speak a native language, so English ends up being their third language. Their kids also hear Spanish and the native language at home. [/quote]
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