I look at myself as an individual who survived many horrible things in life. However, I rarely mention learning English language as one of them. I think the language difficulty occurred to me, but I pretty good dealt with it thought I began learning my alphabets at a young age. I was not that influence in English when I came to this country, but compared to my currently students, I think I was better.
Again, as I mentioned that I work with students of all different levels of ESL and it is difficult to explain certain things to them sometimes. On September 24 and 25, not only did I translate the material to them; but also I worked with them on letters pattern as well as forming words in English. I assisted them individually. For example, I explained to them how we could sound out a name of a place or a word such as 'mother' and then try to spell it out by picking different letters.
It's good to hear you are helping children that were once in your position. I have helped ESL students as part of my internship but nowhere near to the extend you have.
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It is admirable the work you do, I really think that you are investing your time in the right place!
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