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>Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2005 14:07:31 -0500
>To: Language Learning and Technology International Information Forum
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>From: Nina Garrett <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Re: #7850 Problems in learning a second language
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When we encounter students with such problems, we ask them (privately)
whether they might want to talk with the Yale Resource Office on
Disabilities. The director of that office is extremely knowledgeable and
helpful, and if necessary will refer the student to the one person at Yale
who has the authority to evaluate whether the student has a real disability
for language learning and should have the FL requirement waived -- she's a
pediatrician in the Yale Med School with an enormous research background on
language learning problems in both first and subsequent languages. When
the FL requirement is waived, the student still has to complete six (as of
next year four) course credits in the study of a specific
non-English-speaking culture.
At 01:43 PM 3/22/2005 -0500, you wrote:
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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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>
>
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