LINGUIST List 13.2040

Wed Aug 7 2002

Media: Article, NY Times: Shortage of ESL Teachers

Editor for this issue: Karen Milligan <karenlinguistlist.org>

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1. Karen S. Chung, NYT: Shortage of ESL teachers

 The August 5, 2002 online edition of the New York Times has an
article reporting on a shortage of teachers for bilingual and ESL
classes in the US:

 Wave of Pupils Lacking English Strains Schools
 By Yilu Zhao

 Schools across the country, particularly in rural areas, are
desperately short of people qualified to teach bilingual or
English-as-a-second-language classes.

 http://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/05/education/05ESL.html?todaysheadlines

(Editor's note: This URL will take you first to an annoying registration form.
However, registration is free, and once the form is completed, the article
will appear.)

 Karen Steffen Chung
 National Taiwan University
 karchungccms.ntu.edu.tw

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