Word: englishness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...First English Lesson...
...best we can to give the students a basic foundation," says English as a Second Language Coordinator Donald E. Green, a permanent worker with Employment Connections Inc. (ECI). "Getting them to a job has got to be the first priority, though the classes can be continued afterwards. We're not having them stay here and study, study, study...
Harvard students help recent immigrants from Latin America and Southeast Asia to gain a working knowledge of English, enough to get skilled employment...
...PBHA's Project Literacy's longest running programs, the ECI group was started in 1986, says founder and co-chair Mary Ellen Ronayne '89. The urgency of the need for the program is shown by the new immigrants' shaky command of English...
...want to speak English," says Hoeun Ou, who came to the United States from Cambodia in late 1985, "because in America they need to. I need to speak...