Comments on: Lost in Translation – Migrant Students Navigating the American Education System http://prernalal.com/2008/08/lost-in-translation-migrant-students-navigating-the-american-education-system/ No Borders and Binaries Wed, 25 Aug 2010 01:58:24 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Richard G http://prernalal.com/2008/08/lost-in-translation-migrant-students-navigating-the-american-education-system/comment-page-1/#comment-1156 Richard G Thu, 04 Sep 2008 01:28:14 +0000 http://prernalal.com/?p=413#comment-1156 Thanks for this, Prerna. I'm the "owner" of the blog in question, although in reality I got the AILF to agree to a Creative Commons license for the blog so that the individual students will retain the rights to their work--otherwise the AILF would have owned ALL rights to the writings, according to the grant agreement. They (the AILF) were very willing to modify their agreement in this way, which was wonderful. I love my students and have high hopes for this project. It's just getting started, but each day more students are joining. Blogging is a bit strange to them at first. In time I think they will be more comfortable. I am encouraging multiple language blogging, so hopefully they will do so. The educational system has somewhat beat the "English Only" idea into them, though, so I'm trying to let them see it's fine to use and love your first language. Many of them have trouble expressing their deepest feelings in English. I certainly have heard them be much more expressive in Spanish, Khmer, Chinese, and Portuguese! Keep blogging--I like the diatribes, by the way. :-) Thanks for this, Prerna. I’m the “owner” of the blog in question, although in reality I got the AILF to agree to a Creative Commons license for the blog so that the individual students will retain the rights to their work–otherwise the AILF would have owned ALL rights to the writings, according to the grant agreement. They (the AILF) were very willing to modify their agreement in this way, which was wonderful.

I love my students and have high hopes for this project. It’s just getting started, but each day more students are joining. Blogging is a bit strange to them at first. In time I think they will be more comfortable. I am encouraging multiple language blogging, so hopefully they will do so. The educational system has somewhat beat the “English Only” idea into them, though, so I’m trying to let them see it’s fine to use and love your first language. Many of them have trouble expressing their deepest feelings in English. I certainly have heard them be much more expressive in Spanish, Khmer, Chinese, and Portuguese!

Keep blogging–I like the diatribes, by the way. :-)

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