ESL in DoDS Schools

A young Arzu Alp, a 10 year old soldier (not her real name), started high school at the third school in four years. She is not expected to understand the teacher because she is nervous standing in front of the American flag. I only have one new friend and I hope to speak English as a second language. You do not have to worry about it. Her family is placed with an enthusiastic teacher who oversees 100 or more English as a professional teacher at the school she attends and a student of the second language as a student of the second language.

Characteristics of school / student / employee: In a large public high school, about 200 ESLs and Korean students with regular school population and 200 ESL Russian Jewish students are the focus of this paper. Over the course of the research there were over 1,800 high school students, and 70% of them were ethnic minorities. The total population of Latin Americans is about 34%, Caucasians 20%, African Americans 18% and Asians 20%. Approximately one third of students are participating in the ESL course

ESL students face several obstacles to higher education. Most universities require high school English for 4 years. In addition, most universities will only accept ESL English for one year. It is difficult to meet this requirement because ESL students arriving in the United States need to spend more time on high school ESL English classes or do not arrive at high school to complete a 4 year English course. This caused many ESL students to enroll in universities without the correct credits or to enroll in summer school to complete the necessary course.

ESL is a complementary and comprehensive English program designed to help students learn languages ​​to bring about changes in the American society. Although ESL is complementary, ESL teachers are still likely to be employed in a public school system. Many schools, especially urban areas, have courses where students learn English in small groups under the guidance of ESL teachers during part of normal school life. Private universities can hire other ESL teachers to provide English tutors to instructors in other languages

ESL teachers have different age and ability students. ESL students can participate regardless of age, but most ESL teachers are in high school and high school. Although this does not mean that ESL teachers do not teach elementary school, ESL students are only attracted to the teacher of title 1, while elementary school teachers often teach the foundation of English in regular classes not. This means that for older students who are in school system but are not proficient in English, ESL teachers mean the most needed in middle and high school. ESL students are the same temperament as students of all ages, but they can not communicate effectively anytime. This may make ESL education difficult, but it will also bring great benefits.