ELT World » Diversity Your local friendly TEFL blog Fri, 04 Jun 2010 05:32:55 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 United States: Winooski refugee influx brings praise and concern /2009/10/united-states-winooski-refugee-influx-brings-praise-and-concern/ /2009/10/united-states-winooski-refugee-influx-brings-praise-and-concern/#comments Sat, 10 Oct 2009 08:39:57 +0000 david /?p=619 Vermont: The Burlington free press reports that ‘History is repeating itself in Winooski in the form of a wave of new immigrants. About a third of the students in the Winooski public-school system are English language learners, School Superintendent Steve Perkins said last week.’

This, apparently represents a 20 percent increase when compared to the student population of four years ago. Perkins, refreshingly, regards the refugee influx as an opportunity and a challenge, not a negative, while the district has hired people to teach refugees English, and all teachers have had extensive training in overcoming language barriers, he said.

Read the full story here.

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]]> /2009/10/united-states-winooski-refugee-influx-brings-praise-and-concern/feed/ 0 The 'Salad Bowl' of English Teaching /2008/10/the-salad-bowl-of-english-teaching/ /2008/10/the-salad-bowl-of-english-teaching/#comments Fri, 24 Oct 2008 08:58:03 +0000 david /blog/?p=34 Like it or loath it, diversity has been the chief buzzword in education across the globe over the past 30 years. When we talk about “diversity” in language teaching, what on Earth are we talking about? Is this something new? Is the teaching of English somehow different from the teaching of other languages (and should it be?)

Robert J. Dickey of Gyeongju University discusses this issue in an interesting article in the Korea Times, focusing specifically on various aspects, namely the learners, course design and culture.

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