EDU101.002Ch2ELL

In chapter two of //The Joy of Teaching,// the authors discuss the statistics and educational experiences of English language learners. Over 48 million residents of the United States speak a language other than English at home. Immigration, and resistance to it, dates back to colonial times, and it is for this reason that many people in the United States do not understand immigration, or the people behind it. Today, most immigrants are coming from North America; specifically, about 19% of immigrants come from Mexico. All immigrants arrive in the U.S. with different levels of education and educational experiences, and even if the parent's of a student are unauthorized to live in the United States, the student cannot be denied an education. Bilingualism has become a prized skill in this world, and many companies are hiring people that have the ability to speak more than one language.