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>Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2005 21:15:41 -0600
>From: "Emma Fernandez" <[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Problems in learning a second language

Thank you for responding my previous question on evaluating a
second language acquisition. Your responses were pretty useful.
Now, I have another question to pose. I hope someone can also
help me this time.

One of my students has never studied a second language before.
She is not the only one in the class who never before struggled
with the difficulties of learning another language but she,
definitely, have much more problems than the rest. I have never
seen anything like that before. I know she studies. She also
visits me during my office hours every week but still it seems
to be very, very, very difficult for her.

I have tried to simplify things for her. Offering my time,
asking her for special homework, printing her alternative
materials, and preparing different tests but I do not know what
else to do. It is impossible for her to follow the course. If at
the end of the semester I fail her it would not be fair and if I
decide to examine her differently I feel like I am not being
fair with other students.

Any suggestions?,


Emma Fern$E1ndez




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