ESL Class Differences

To be an ESL student in the regular classroom is not easy for the students and the teachers. Researchers agree that most of the time, the high school and middle school teachers are less prepared to receive this type of students in their classroom (DelliCarpini). I am an ESL student in this type of classroom. It was very hard for me at the beginning. Moving here by myself was very difficult. Everything was so new for me like house, school, people, and food. I was living at the dorm with people I never see before in my life that was very weird for me. My first years, I was sick all the time because of the food was very new for me and most of the fruit were not fresh. The dorm people were very nice with me but the school people little bit. I was crying a lot because that was the first time, I left home by myself. My first day at school, I was working with a dictionary at school because I know nothing about English and if I want to say something I need to search first before open my mouth. People were making fun of me but I was here for learn and I did not care about what people things. At school, I have a lot of problems understand most of my teachers. …show more content…
I go hard time making friend at school because I am scared to talk most of the time and I do not know how to approach people. To help that situation, the teachers can ask one of the regular student to be the helper. That student will help the ESL students with school work, stay with them during the pause or at lunch time. That will make the ESL students do not feel alone. Even the students can show them, how to be better in English. The way their can study if the teacher is not giving them enough information. Because some teachers do not really what to do when they give you homework and when you get home we are lost, do not know what to do. Have help for ESL students is very important for