Jesse O. Walls
Contributor
Jesse O. Walls | Contributor
Molly Dyke (left), adult education and literacy (AEL) instructor, and Darlene Richards, general studies major, look at family photos brought in by ELI instructor, Rose Speck (right), showing her German heritage, during the last German class of the semester on April 28.
The Global Language Project held its last German class of the semester on April 29 in Newton Hall, room 356. The final class session included a potluck that consisted of German dishes, as well as music and discussion.
“I think [the class] is really great,” said Jim Graham, abjunct chemistry instructor for the Webb City campus. “I had taken German in college and never spoke a word of it … I saw the email about this and it really brought it back to me. It’s really been a good thing.”
German was the third class offered by the English Language Institute (ELI) for the Global Language Project, Korean being offered earlier this semester and Portuguese being the first, offered last fall.
“There are two things that prompted the initiation of these classes,” said Rose Speck, ELI instructor. “The first is just the overall goal of the ELI, which is to help non-native English speakers learn English, but also to really provide cultural and language diversity, so I am always looking for ways to do that.”
Jesse O. Walls | Contributor
Dolores Jennings, non degree seeking student, plays German folk songs for the last German class of the semester on April 29.
The German course was taught by Sofia Sanchez Salcedo, general studies major, a student whose second language is German.
“Mostly what I’m doing in the introduction to German is giving them phrases not to learn, but to have, just in case they want to travel,” said Salcedo. “It’s more of an introduction to see how sentences are formed and that kind of thing.”
According to Speck, an announcement is sent out at the beginning of each semester asking students who are fluent in a second language to apply for the program if they are willing to teach a course, and Speck reviews these applications and chooses the next student teacher and course offered from their qualifications.
