Teachers at Jones Avenue Adult Centre Feature Their ESL Students
Writing helps reveal the complexity of the immigrant experience, teachers at Jones Avenue Adult Centre have found, and each year since 2002 they have compiled and published essays by their 300 English-as-a-second-language students. The latest edition of the anthology, called Footprints, is to be launched today, during ESL week in Toronto, at a private function at the Toronto school board’s offices. “Often students who have trouble articulating in the classroom will reveal all these layers of themselves through their writing,” says editor Momoye Sugiman, one of the teachers at the school. “I’ve gotten to know some very shy, withdrawn students through their writing.”
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