{"id":6250,"date":"2018-03-14T05:17:35","date_gmt":"2018-03-14T05:17:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eltweekly.com\/?p=6250"},"modified":"2018-03-14T05:17:35","modified_gmt":"2018-03-14T05:17:35","slug":"teaching-english-language-learners-a-complex-endeavor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eltweekly.humbeestudio.xyz\/?p=6250","title":{"rendered":"Teaching English Language Learners: A Complex Endeavor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Three middle-school-aged boys draw pictures in chalk on a blackboard on a bright Saturday afternoon. \u201cWrite the word below the drawing,\u201d I say. The word\u00a0<em>apple<\/em>goes under the apple,\u00a0<em>tree<\/em>\u00a0under the tree. Afterward, they practice with vocabulary flashcards for a half hour. At a bathroom break, all three bolt down the hall in search of a soccer ball, teasing each other in Arabic.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>They might be eager to learn English, too\u2014but I feel I\u2019ve lost them already.<\/p>\n<p>The three are recent arrivals from war-torn Syria, and have been in the country for only a year. Though the civil war has raged since 2011 with more than\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2013\/08\/27\/world\/meast\/syria-civil-war-fast-facts\/index.html\">400,000 casualties and millions of refugees<\/a>, these boys bear little obvious impact of the traumas they\u2019ve been through and the elaborate screening process it took to get here\u2014and we don\u2019t ask. In many ways, they seem like average tweens, enthusiastic and eager to learn.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.edutopia.org\/article\/teaching-english-language-learners-complex-endeavor\"><strong>Teaching English Language Learners: A Complex Endeavor<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three middle-school-aged boys draw pictures in chalk on a blackboard on a bright Saturday afternoon. \u201cWrite the word below the drawing,\u201d I say. The word\u00a0applegoes under the apple,\u00a0tree\u00a0under the tree. Afterward, they practice with vocabulary flashcards for a half hour. 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