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EDUCATION REPORT

June 20, 2002: ESOL and Glebe School


By Jerilyn Watson



This is the VOA Special English Education Report.


Millions of students in American schools today are recent immigrants 2 or children of immigrants. About ninety-
percent of their families come from countries where English is not spoken. To succeed in school, the students
need help to learn English. Many take part in a program called English for Speakers of Other Languages or
ESOL (EE-sol).


For example, Glebe Elementary School in Arlington, Virginia, has almost three-hundred students. More than
twenty-five percent of these children study ESOL. Most of the children’s families are from Central and South
America. Others are from Russia, the Middle East, Africa, South Asia and East Asia. Students at the school have
families from more than twenty-five countries.


Some of these students recently helped VOA celebrate its sixtieth anniversary 3 of broadcasting. They made
birthday pictures and messages that are being shown at VOA headquarters 4 in Washington 5, D.C. For example,
Damaris Gaitan (Dah-MAHR-ees Guy-TAN) drew a round world to show that VOA broadcasts internationally.
Damaris is in the fourth year of studies at Glebe Elementary School. Her family came here from El Salvador.


Pat 6 Nomina (NAHM-in -ah) teaches ESOL at Glebe Elementary School. Mizz
Nomina uses several teaching 7 methods. For example, she develops study guides
about subjects like the seasons, science, history and the weather. Mizz Nomina says
her students enjoy singing songs with English words. She says songs that repeat
words are especially helpful. Students, parents and educators have praised the
school’s ESOL program.


However, education experts say many other American schools are not helping 8
immigrant 1 children who do not speak English well. They say not enough teachers
are trained to work with these students. Schools may fail to check on their progress.
Children may lose interest because they cannot understand what they hear and read.


A new group formed by the federal 9 government may improve this situation. Thirteen experts serve on this
National Literacy 10 Panel 11. They will examine research about teaching English to young speakers of other
languages. Educators hope the experts

work will help develop better ways to help immigrant children.


This VOA Special English Education Report was written by Jerilyn Watson.



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adj.(从国外)移来的,移民的;n.移民,侨民
  • Life in the USA was very hard for almost every new immigrant.美国的生活几乎对每一个新移民都很艰难。
  • I'd like to obtain some information about applying for an immigrant visa.我想取一些申请移民签证的资料。
n.移民( immigrant的名词复数 )
  • Illegal immigrants were given the opportunity to regularize their position. 非法移民得到了使其身份合法化的机会。
  • Immigrants from all over the world populate this city. 这个城市里生活着来自世界各地的移民。 来自《简明英汉词典》
n.周年(纪念日)
  • They celebrate their wedding anniversary annually.他们每年庆祝一番结婚纪念日。
  • Today is my parents'30th wedding anniversary.今天是我父母结婚30周年纪念日。
n.司令部,指挥部;总部,总店
  • Several great guns from the headquarters are coming to see us today.总部的几个大人物今天要来看我们。
  • The bank has its headquarters in Pairs.这家银行的总行在巴黎。
n.华盛顿特区(是美国首都)
  • His birthplace is Washington,but he lives in San Francisco.他出生于华盛顿,但住在旧金山。
  • They, together with my father,have gone to Washington.他们和我父亲一起去华盛顿了。
n.轻拍,拍打声;vt.轻拍,拍打;vi.轻跑,轻击;adv.适时,彻底;adj.油腔滑调的,恰好的,合适的
  • Could you hear the pat?你能听到轻轻的拍击声吗?
  • He gave her a reassuring pat on the shoulder. 他轻拍了一下她的肩膀让她放心。
n.教学,执教,任教,讲授;(复数)教诲
  • We all agree in adopting the new teaching method. 我们一致同意采取新的教学方法。
  • He created a new system of teaching foreign languages.他创造了一种新的外语教学体系。
n.食物的一份&adj.帮助人的,辅助的
  • The poor children regularly pony up for a second helping of my hamburger. 那些可怜的孩子们总是要求我把我的汉堡包再给他们一份。
  • By doing this, they may at times be helping to restore competition. 这样一来, 他在某些时候,有助于竞争的加强。
adj.联盟的;联邦的;(美国)联邦政府的
  • Switzerland is a federal republic.瑞士是一个联邦共和国。
  • The schools are screaming for federal aid.那些学校强烈要求联邦政府的援助。
n.识字,有文化,读写能力
  • I can't believe that he failed the literacy test.我无法相信他识字测试不及格。
  • The literacy rate there is the highest in Central America.那里的识字率居中美洲之首。
n.面,板,专门小组,控制板,仪表盘
  • The unusual control panel on the walls caught our attention.墙上不同寻常的控制板引起了我们的注意。
  • The panel of judges included several well-known writers.评判小组中包括几位知名作家。
学英语单词
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5'-Deoxyadenosyl-B12
acid fast red
Aegerita
albumin milk
almeida pilosa
amoralists
amphoteric ion-exchangeresin
anti-impact gear
batouti
blast furnace smelting
bunss
cabinetmaker
cauliflora
CD Video
Churumuco
COBOL transaction program
collapsible keel block
corecipients
dihydropyrimidinase
direct exporttrade
draw-
drip-drying
escrowing
esterifiable
Ethydan
ethyl cyanamide
filtered signal
fire bricks
flamdoodle
Florence crystals
foam solution
folded potential
forestry production statistics
fully arisen sea
general fixed assets group of accounts
genus Hamamelis
genus irenas
Grecian nose
groaners
Guengant
Haskins
hcb
ill-humo(u)redly
in conjunction with
input/output stream control
inseminating catheter
insured risk
joint buying office
Kentish fire
lande's g factor
Lincolnshire
look-at-me signal
magon
managed economies
merphenyl
metropolitan broadband network
mobile control room
Muncimir
national switching network
network for arc welding
non-metered tap
not the done thing
nuclei cochleares
Oetinghausen
pastures newer pastures
Pelargonium limoneum
pen lid
penetration method
permeably
Ping Pong buffer
powerful radio-frequency cable
pump for sludge tank
punctuation space
Quinalspan
redalder
reduced flange
regulating error
requirement for tax exemption
self-skill
shape straighten
shelf front
ST_including-and-excluding_covering-and-adding-layers
suele
taper-reamer
taste acuity
technico-
telecommunication route
throw up one's hat
transiliac
travel card
triatic
uncountry
variation in testing temperature
vibroplatform
Villaputzu
Virtual File Allocation Table
vision distance
well-illuminated
what are we waiting for
yester-morrows
z transform inverse