[EnglishLanguage 2576] Re: Mental health issues and ESLMarcos Valle marcos.valle at edcc.eduThu May 22 14:12:41 EDT 2008
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 . -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.nifl.gov/pipermail/englishlanguage/attachments/20080522/e19091a2/attachment.html
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