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LOGGER'S SHEET SI-FP-1987-CT-323 LOGGER: Barbara Fletcher REEL NUMBER:2B & 3A STAGE: CC Plaza DATE: 7/3 PRESENTOR: Carol Compton GROUP NAME: Forum: Language & Education REGION/STYLE: PERFORMER(S) INSTRUMENT/OCCUPATION Laura Milton Hodge Bounsou Sanani Kone Yung-Chin Yeh CONTENTS 1. Introduction by Carol 2. Problem facing Lao children coming into school in this country 3. 1) in some cases, no previous formal schooling 4. 2) obvious language problem. 5. 3) make up for lost time quickly - eager to learn 6. Laura - already learned one "language" from parents/family (triple negatives, etc.) - Educators don't want to "kill" 7. family tradition while trying to educate children 8. Yeh - older immigrants isolated from Amer. culture; 9. young people want to leave Chinatown so they're 10. more eager to learn English in order to assimilate 11. In Taiwan, taught English in 7th grade - grew up 12. however, English is not spoken: most immigrants] from 13. China do not have English background. Major problem for me immigrants. How is language maintained in community? 1) Lao - spoken in homes; important to adapt to Amer. culture, but also emphasize "old family" traditions. 2) N.C. - want to change image of "hillbilly" - pioneer values - independence and self reliance; extended family ← 3) Chinese - one problem is that there are so many dialects of speech; writing is the same [[left margin]] Tape Change Chinese con't = Bilingual education is popular but Yeh doesn't agree with it. Feels it slows down leaning of Eng. ESL good program. - Questions from audience [[/left margin]]