Struggles of the ESL students

Members: •Marcelo Bustamante•Joselito Ramirez•Aldrin Espinoza•Laura Ordoñez

Issues:• Language barrier• Adaptation process• Social influence• Parental influence• Economical status• Foreign education• Personality of the students• Segregated “Sheltered” classes

NO VOICELANGUAGE BARRIER

Frustration

At the end who is affected?

Students

Parents

Percentage of Competency

ESL Students Test Scores Statistics

What people interviewed say/think about the problem ?

J. Fine - ESL Teacher

• Advocate needed.• Apply motivation to the

students.• Foreign education.• Encourage the students

to speak the new language.

• “Motivation is everything”

• Same materials different way of teaching.

Mr. Ramirez – Teacher• ESL students should have a

voice at Cleveland High School

• They have to work twice as they can.

• ESL teachers promote all their help to improve the English skills of the ESL students.

• ESL students should join ISLA (international students leadership association) to get tips, information about how the school system works (important dates, attendance, schedule, etc).

Trang Le – Former ESL Student

• Hard beginning on school• Liked the teachers, but not

the system of education.• Didn’t like the

environment of learning.• English self-learning

because the lack of attention.

• Improved fast, but help was still needed.

• With no idea of the important test/dates of the school (CST, CASEEH, etc).

N. Laud - Teacher

• “When a student doesn’t feel valued, he won’t do much”

• “Every one should be aware of the E.S.L students at school, because every year school receives certain amount of immigrant students”

• Teachers should be aware of the struggles and extra efforts that ESL students make day by day.

Virginia Ramirez Ex-ESL Student

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• Always felt I was going to be left out.

• The main problems I had was adapting to the new country and making friends.

• I was the kind of girl whose goal was to get a college degree

• Never late to class.• The main struggles of the

ESL students : social, economic, and family.

Types of Citizens

Personally Responsible Citizen

• Do their homework.• Encourage himself to speak the

language.• Get involved in school activities

(clubs, sports, groups, etc).• Acts responsible in the classroom.• Build and develop responsibility,

good values, good behavior in his/her character.

• Respect the school laws.• Develop good self esteem.

Participatory Citizen• Participates in school activities.• Encourage others students to speak

the language.• Help more ESL students to get into

the new language by making them going to English tutoring classes afterschool.

• Organize groups to help ESL students.

• Get into groups to organize the help

Justice Oriented Citizen

• Critically assesses social, economic problems of other ESL students who face a bad household economy.

• Explores strategies for change that address root causes of problems.

• Knows about social movements & how to effect systematic change.

• Seeks out & addresses areas of injustice in school.

Self Defeating Citizen

• Doesn’t show any improvement.• Tardiness.• Truancy.• Absences.• Don’t show up their work.• Low self esteem.• Don’t learn the language.• Left school and prefer to work and

not to study or get a higher education.

What people say/think about the problem ?

Sonia - Student

• Most ESL students haven't taken any English classes before their coming at this country.

• ESL students test-scores were low because they’re not fluent and prepared to write, speak, and listen the english language.

• Most ESL students were put in ESL Math because they can comprehend the math terms in English

• Everyone should be aware of the ESL students because it is extremely important understand their problem, that should be one of the school’s priorities.

Mr. Ramirez - Teacher• ESL students have the right to have a

voice at CHS.• ESL students should get into ISLA club

to get information about how the school system works.

• Teachers do their best to improve/find a way to teach/help ESL students.

• As a teacher, I help the students with the language and encourage them to get involve in the school and help others.

• Many fail classes because some of them give up, don’t understand the language, and many of them have problems at home.

• Everybody (teachers, students) be aware of the ESL students because for them it is a challenge start basically a new life.

J. Fine - ESL Teacher• There is many reason of how/why

students succeed and not succeed learning the language (foreign education, personality of the student, social environment).

• My method to teach is “same materials, but different way of teaching”

• ESL teachers have to get involve with the student’s needs because many would need help at specific topics (grammar, comprehension, talking).

• “Motivation is everything”• Because they got lower scores they

were put in sheltered classes.• We have to encourage the student

to speak the language, but no obligate him/her to do it because is their responsibility and action to do it, they have to try to improve.

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students tend to feel left out at the beginning.

• Depression and loneliness.

• Peer pressure, that leads them to do what other do in order to be accepted.

• There’s when they start to form their habits and adapt to do what other people tell them to do.

Types of Citizens:Pro & Cons

PersonallyResponsibl

eCitizen

What’s good of being a personally responsible citizen

• Good grades, straight A's.• Good self esteem.• Personal responsibility.• Away from problems by

obeying the laws.• Develop a character of

responsibility.• Get quickly fluent in the

language.

What might be limited or bad of being a personally responsible citizen

• Get criticized by other students.

• Stress, social pressure.• Inadequate response to

the challenges• Widely accepted goals.• Got all the attention

instead of the people who really needed.

Participatory

Citizen

What’s good about being a participatory citizen

• Engage collective help.

• Participates & collaborates.

• Lead & encourage people to succeed.

• Good self esteem.• Actively participating

in school affairs.

What might be limited or bad of being a participatory citizen

• Detract other important school priorities.

• Be criticized by students and teachers instead of a reward because their actions.

• Big responsibility, feel that everything is your “responsibility”.

• Hide the solution of the problem.

Justice Oriented Citizen

What’s good of being a justice oriented citizen

• Understand the school problem.

• Find a way to make equality in school.

• Focus on justice to end the problem.

What might be limited or bad of being a justice oriented

citizen• Limited/none power to

make any change in school.

• Focus on laws but not in people’s problems.

• Get criticized by teachers.• Doesn’t focus on the root

that causes the problem.• Confuses “ participation ”

with “ justice ”.

Self Defeating

Citizen

What’s bad of being a self defeating citizen

• Kick out of school.

• Bad grades.• Low self

esteem.• None/Zero

improvement.• Depression and

loneliness.