Native Spanish-Speaking Students Sing Their Way to English Fluency
As Back-to-School season nears, teachers wonder how to best teach their Spanish- speaking students while Language Technology companies scramble to create products to meet public school systems' needs.
Dallas, TX (PRWEB) August 3, 2005 -- Each year in August urban school systems
are inundated with children who do not speak English. It poses a particular
problem for schools in Texas, California, and counties along the Mexico Border.
Now language technology companies like American Language Solutions are coming up
with innovative ways to teach English to native Spanish-speakers. They are
encouraging students to sing their way to English fluency.
A
representative for American Language Solutions stated, "I always get songs stuck
in my head and I end up singing them all day. We thought wouldn’t it be great if
kids actually learned something from the songs that get stuck in their head. We
realized that singing would be an excellent way to teach English to native
Spanish-speakers and we created a program to teach English to school children
that’s almost entirely based on songs. Most other English as a Second Language
programs have kids repeating and memorizing thousands of vocabulary words.
School children don’t want to spend time memorizing vocabulary words. They have
enough stuff to memorize! Singing their way to English fluency is fun and it
doesn’t feel like work."
American Language Solutions’ flagship product,
Ingles Para Todos, makes it possible for anyone in the family to learn English
and can be purchased at www.americanlanguagesolutions.com. For more information on
methods or products to teach English as a second language please contact Sarina
Waugh.
About American Language Solutions:
American Language
Solutions is a Dallas-based language technology company that is dedicated to
helping native Spanish-Speakers learn English. The company produces and
distributes CD-based learning tools that use songs and nursery rhymes to achieve
the goal of teaching English.
Contact:
Sarina Waugh, Director of
Sales
American Language Solutions
817-975-6243
www.americanlanguagesolutions.com
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