{"id":34211,"date":"2020-09-28T08:17:15","date_gmt":"2020-09-28T08:17:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.englishforums.com\/news\/?p=34211"},"modified":"2020-09-28T08:17:15","modified_gmt":"2020-09-28T08:17:15","slug":"esl-students-difficulty-virtual","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/esl-students-difficulty-virtual\/","title":{"rendered":"ESL students having difficulty keeping up with virtual learning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>ESL students in Arizona are having a hard time dealing with virtual learning due to minor communication barriers.<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2>Communication barrier for ESL students<\/h2>\n<p><strong>English as a second language (ESL) students are crawling their way in keeping up with the lessons in virtual learning<\/strong> as the discussion and activities are in the English language. Several students are requesting special consideration for <a href=\"https:\/\/abc7ny.com\/education\/esl-students-brace-for-remote-learning\/6413929\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">non-native English speakers<\/a> to be given a translated version of the virtual learning modules and discussions. Some schools in the U.S. are home to a mix of non-native English speakers, such as those with Hispanic, Asian, and Indian heritage.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.englishforums.com\/news\/secondary-schools-reopening-guidelines\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Some schools<\/a> have the assumption that all students are bilingual and able to understand the English language effectively. But, according to one of the unified schools near the U.S. &#8211; Mexico border, of its 5,600 students, around 21 percent requires ESL classes for supervision.<\/p>\n<h2>A good samaritan offers to homeschool ESL students<\/h2>\n<p><strong>A farmhouse in Buckeye, Arizona, owned by the Mayfield family, has been transformed into a schoolhouse catering to its employee&#8217;s children<\/strong>. Carrie Mayfield, owner of the farmhouse even hired a real teacher to teach the children twice a week. The teacher guides the students with their homework and also offers English translation classes.<br \/>\nCarrie&#8217;s generous act of caring for her employees is a simple gesture that can generate a ripple of positivity to one another, something very essential during this time of the pandemic.<br \/>\nRecently, the Mayfields also added the services of a high schooler which will assist in teacher Madison Harris&#8217;s tutorials and English translations.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ESL students in Arizona are having a hard time dealing with virtual learning due to minor communication barriers. Communication barrier for ESL students English as a second language (ESL) students are crawling their way in keeping up with the lessons in virtual learning as the discussion and activities are in the English language. Several students [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":34213,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,25],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34211"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34211\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}