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Article: Training to Teach English -- As a Second Language
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- Yakima Herald-Republic
- Article date:
- August 28, 2001
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SUNNYSIDE - Nearly one in four students in the Sunnyside School
District needs help in English.
But only 3 percent of the district's teachers are state certified
to teach them English as a second language.
Sunnyside Superintendent Rick Cole wants that changed. He wants
one in four teachers trained to teach English to non-native
speakers.
In September, teachers here and in Grandview will get that
training.
The two school districts are teaming up with Gonzaga University
to offer Teaching English as a Second Language training to 30
teachers this fall and next spring. It's the first time the Jesuit
university in Spokane has offered the graduate program to the two
districts.
"Students will be ...