Service Learning and ESL Students :: ESL Students

School, when somewhat people hear the word, they usually think that schooltime is acquirement newfangled things in a room. However, it is something that can non be described only in the textbook. serve well learning is an union of community expediency and formal learning. It involves students going come forward into their communities and using that which they learn in differentiate to help people, and then obstetrical delivery that which they learn in their community service back into the classroom to upgrade their learning.(Minor, 2001) Diane Murakami who is an ELL (English Language Learners) teacher at Queen Kaahumanu Elementary School in Honolulu. She gave CP 4 (college preparatory) students at Hawaii Internal College a chance to service learning at Queen Kaahumanu Elementary School. Service learning is a good effect vogue to learn about new cultures and as well as to communicate with local people for ESL students.Studying abroad is a wonderful opportunity, but it is not easy to spend time in a new culture, and communicating with people is difficult. Natalie M. Russell is an ESL (English as a Second Language) teacher at Omaha South High School, and she realized that when she was teaching ESL students, they often matte alienated from their school and communities. Therefore, they tended to make friends only in school, so they did not make friends outside of school. In Teaching More Than English, Natalie M. Russell said, they avoided interacting with mainstream students and acquire involved in school activities (Natalie M. Russell, 2007, para 1).Natalie M. Russell tried to make her class communication with mainstream people, and she decided that service learning was a good way to communicate with mainstream people because she said, students not only learn during service learning activities, but also they also reflect on their service and its entertain to the community. This reflection helps build a sense of civic responsibility and care for oth ers.(Natalie M. Russell, 2007, para 3)In Natalie M. Russells case, she said, the student population of the high school in which I taught was approximately 60% Hispanic, and my ESL classes that year were 100% Hispanic. In deciding what our service project would be, my students concluded that the communitys elemental problem was the language barrier that divided the immigrants from the local population. (Natalie M. Russell, 2007, para 4) In town, Spanish/English dictionaries were available to buy, but Spanish/English phrasebooks were not, so she and her students decided to make Spanish/English phrasebooks and distributed it free in the community.