I wanted to acknowledge the Delpit situation that is presented on the first page in the last paragraph. "At school, words were directed to a general audience of listeners..." Rodriguez sets up the a similar instance that Delpit does. In the Delpit article there was a section on tonality and the way demands or questions were phrased. Delpit notes that there is a miscommunication when a teacher is indirect with their students due to a difference in culture. Rodriguez takes this notion a step further by acknowledging the tremendous miscommunication when there is a difference in language.
I also wanted to share a few statistics about ESL students in America:
Within the next 10 years ESL students are expected to make up for 1 in every 4 students in the United States ... source
This page also has some interesting info on ESL students!
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