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English as a second language (ESL) has become one of the fastest growing interests and disciplines in US education. Original ESL articles from ESLFocus show you how ESL in the United States takes place. Check often for information on ESL everywhere it happens in the USA. |
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| By Jon Siker |
01/09/12 |
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According to The New York Times report, the American-based Chinese undergraduate student population has tripled in the past three years, bringing benefits to both the US colleges and language schools as students seek English language courses. |
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| 06/13/11 |
| Creating an effective and popular Writing Skills Class for ESL students can be a challenge at best. Students are often frustrated by the amount of time they need to devote to the process and teachers are dissuaded by the correction load that a large writing class can produce. |
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| 05/20/11 |
 If learning a new language can be equated to staving off drowning from a sinking ship, then the first few weeks of study are a matter of grabbing floating debris and fending off shark attacks. While it's maybe not that dramatic, it does involve some important decisions. As a teacher, it's your job t... |
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| 08/23/10 |
| The demand for quality higher education is soaring around the world. International students arriving in wealthy, English-speaking countries such as the United States increase in number each year. The rapid economic development of countries around the world like India, China, and Brazil has created n... |
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| 05/30/10 |
 The controversy surrounding Arizona's new immigration law enforcement may impact non-native teachers in the classroom. The state's Department of Education recently started telling individual school districts that teachers with accented or grammatically incorrect English would need to be reassigned f... |
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| 07/15/09 |
| As someone who has worked with foreign students and as part of a foreign exchange program, I have a good appreciation of how incredibly difficult it is for a sponsor to find good host families for international students coming to the United States. In fact, housing matters are generally the most cha... |
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| 04/26/09 |
 This year’s annual CATESOL conference in Pasadena in mid-April hosted two workshops centered on generation 1.5, those students, who, in many cases, have been living in the U.S. since an early age, are not necessarily fluent in their “home” language, yet don’t exhibit English skills commonly thought ... |
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| 04/13/09 |
 The US has an enormous English as a Second Language industry, with language schools in all of the major American cities. Many classes in the U.S. are immersion programs comprised of multilingual groups of adult students, an interesting challenge that can inspire creative teaching. |
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| 04/02/09 |
| Living in the United States with the express purpose of studying English is on the minds of many ESL (English as a Second Language) students around the world. English continues to blossom as the global language of business, academia, and communication, drawing more and more learners to language scho... |
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