Struggle in Foreign Country
Bing Pan
Prof. Samtani
Eng 1A
11/28/12
Struggling in a Foreign Country United States has many world fame universities, those universities are the sanctuary for all students in the world. In United States, there are huge amount of immigrant moving in every year, and the most of purpose for them is education for next generation. In fact, from the 1997-98 school years to the 2008-09 school years, the number of English-language learners enrolled in public schools increased from 3.5 million to 5.3 million, or by 51 percent (National Clearinghouse for English Language Acquisition, 2011). As long as the dramatic increase on foreign students, the education for these ESL students seems more important not only because it concern about the economic aids from the students but also the quality of education. College ESL students are the students that struggle the most, because they are already past the golden age of learning new language, they have difficulties to changing the way to speak the language. In addition, college English has higher standard and more complex instruction, even they have base English skills in their country, it does not change a lot. Perhaps there are some students that are outstanding and able to jump out the swamp of English for various reasons, but mostly cannot escape it without efficiency help. Most college ESL students are talented and excellent; they will be great after they are able to handle English. The education system have to focus on helping their success by understanding them and give a more appropriate education plan to them. Understand and analysis ESL students is crucial for helping their success. According to the definition that given by Glossary, ESL is a shorten phrase that stand for "English as a Second Language", they are also called ELL as "English Language Learner." They are the students that whose first language is something other than English, and they have difficulties to perform English reading and
Prof. Samtani
Eng 1A
11/28/12
Struggling in a Foreign Country United States has many world fame universities, those universities are the sanctuary for all students in the world. In United States, there are huge amount of immigrant moving in every year, and the most of purpose for them is education for next generation. In fact, from the 1997-98 school years to the 2008-09 school years, the number of English-language learners enrolled in public schools increased from 3.5 million to 5.3 million, or by 51 percent (National Clearinghouse for English Language Acquisition, 2011). As long as the dramatic increase on foreign students, the education for these ESL students seems more important not only because it concern about the economic aids from the students but also the quality of education. College ESL students are the students that struggle the most, because they are already past the golden age of learning new language, they have difficulties to changing the way to speak the language. In addition, college English has higher standard and more complex instruction, even they have base English skills in their country, it does not change a lot. Perhaps there are some students that are outstanding and able to jump out the swamp of English for various reasons, but mostly cannot escape it without efficiency help. Most college ESL students are talented and excellent; they will be great after they are able to handle English. The education system have to focus on helping their success by understanding them and give a more appropriate education plan to them. Understand and analysis ESL students is crucial for helping their success. According to the definition that given by Glossary, ESL is a shorten phrase that stand for "English as a Second Language", they are also called ELL as "English Language Learner." They are the students that whose first language is something other than English, and they have difficulties to perform English reading and