Spanish struggles and teaching

[Francis Hult]

Dallas Morning News

 

Faith Davis Johnson: Spanish struggles and teaching

 

Before becoming a teacher, if asked how I felt about teaching children in a language other than English, I would have, with righteous, patriotic indignation, stated that not only should a child be taught in English, the law should make it so. 

 

My world view has changed a lot since then, but nothing impacted me as much as my recent experience in the Summer Immersion Program at the Instituto Mexicano de Espanol y Cultura in Cuernavaca, Mexico.

 

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