The Department of Applied Linguistics and the Center for World Languages and Cultures at the University of Massachusetts Boston were awarded a Title III grant by the U.S. Department's Office of English Language Acquisition for the Teacher Parent Literacy Program to implement a two-pronged collaborative program with Boston and Brockton public schools and community agencies. The dual purposes include (1) preparing urgently needed English as a Second Language (ESL) educators to successfully collaborate with the parents of their limited English proficient (LEP) students; and (2) offering immigrant Haitian and Cape Verdean Creole-speaking parents in Boston and Brockton access to ESL instruction that is simultaneously culturally relevant, linked to their children's schooling, and effective preparation for later English-language GED and citizenship classes.
INTRODUCTON TO THE STAFF
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RELEVANT CURRICULA AND MATERIALS
Civics and Citizenship Education
PARENT EDUCATION
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PARENT ORGANIZATIONS
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CULTURALLY RELEVANT
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USEFUL LINKS
Haitian American Public Health Initiative
The Cape Verdean Association of Brockton
The Adult Literacy Resource Institute Web Site (A.L.R.I.)
updated on 04/02/2010