Sandra Slind, Co-ordinator of Access Community through English (ACE), an
ESL/Life Skills program for immigrants with mental illness delivered
through Vancouver Community Mental Health Services (Vancouver, BC,
Canada) led an extremely interesting and eye-opening presentation at
this year's BCTEAL.  It was entitled "Addressing students' past and
futures in language work".  Here's an excerpt from the program's
abstracts section:

 

 "This session will briefly examine the problems inherent in teaching
ESL learners who, for various reasons (trauma, loss, mental illness)
have pasts they are reluctant to draw on in class when doing language
work and unvoiced fears and anxieties about their futures." Central to
the presentation was the question with which she opened it: "Why might
it be difficult for ESL students to use past or future in the language
classroom?"

 

Sandra Slind, whom I am copying on this email, can be contacted at
Sandra.Slind at vch.ca

 

I'm wishing you well.

 

Marcos Valle

 

Marcos Valle, Ph.D.

ABE ESL, International Division

Edmonds Community College

20,000 68th Ave. W

Lynnwood, WA 98036

(425) 640-1215

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