Friday, February 17, 2012

State of Education: An innovative ESL program


This article is from YNN News
The number of ESL students in New York State has grown over 19 percent in the last 15 years. Giffen Elementary School in Albany offers this class to several students of their own
"A lot of them are refugees from other countries that do not speak English, nobody at home speaks English, so this is very valuable information to them," said Betsey Domenico, an ESL teacher.
A lot of them come from the country of Burma.
"We have had a large influx of ESL students in the Albany City School District at our school in Giffen Elementary we have sixty students," said Domenico.
So what methods are being used to help students understand the sometimes tricky English language? Well, how about, riding a public transit bus?

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