Word: englishness
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...that recruits American college students to go to Mexico City and work with and for the poor. Each year the program concentrates on a different social service project. Last year, the group built a public area for children to play in, and this year, the participants plan to teach English to the poor...
This summer, the participants will teach English to poor teenagers in Mexico City through an intensive language course. "Our goal is to achieve fluency in seven weeks," Palos says. Once again, the project's goal is very ambitious. Palos explains that seven weeks is currently considered by professionals to be the minimum time in which fluency can be achieved...
...asking what to do this summer," Wills explained of his choice for this year's project, "and a teacher in a peasant village told me `Teach kids English and we'll fill the place...
While he was investigating the idea of teaching English, Wills says several Mexican private schools asked him to teach their students. "There are no natives teaching English in Mexico," Wills explains, adding that he turned down these offers, because he wants to teach poor children in Mexico to be comfortable around Americans. "With all the tourism, it opens up job opportunities. No one's ever done this, we could be the best language program in the city," he says...
...there are drawbacks to the English system, fellows say. "Third year is live or die. It's a lot more stressful. If you fail a course here, you can take it over. There, if you fail a field, you failed. There's no second...