Chapter 8: Teaching Teenagers who are Still Learning English

This chapter said a lot of interesting things about how to best teach students who do not speak English as their first language. What surprised me though was that a few students commented that teachers would not help them or expect much of them in class. One student even had one teacher do her test for her while she wrote down the answers.

This surprised me because these people are teachers! Their job is to teach not to get frustrated and give up simply because of a language barrier. There are other ways to communicate. I'm surprised that so many teachers just give up. I can see that it would be frustrating but you can't just give up.