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| Dominican Republic, Spring Break 2005 |
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| Between March 14 and 20, 2005, four Millikin students traveled
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| the Dominican Republic in order to teach English as a Second
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Michigan
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| students. Working with the new
SAS Teaching English as a Second Language Program, |
Luther
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| tour students aught in two different elementary schools in
Santo Domingo and also participated in |
Video
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| a workshop for Hotel and Tourism Administration students at
Universidad O&M (Organización |
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| During the first three days of this pilot program, the
Millikin students taught children at the Los Patitos ("Little Ducklings")
school. This was followed by two days of at El Colegio Evangélico
Nacional (National Evangelical School), an internationally-financed private
school that seeks out young Dominican boys and girls with limited
resources to offer them free education, breakfast, uniforms, medicines,
and other needed items. The final time of the Millikin students' internship
week in the DR was spent with the tourism program where "many Dominican
students took advantage of the workshop to improve their pronunciation of
English". |
Michigan University
2006 pdf
2007 pdf
2008 pdf
This is 3 weeks summer program
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| According to the program's administrators, as a result of
this week's work with Millikin, " we could see the great necessity
there is of teaching English to Dominican children, teenagers, and young
adults. Since English is both a universal language and the principal commercial
language today, [this] is extremely important, especially for
students in the field of hotel and tourism administration, who will be working
on a daily basis with people of many nationalities." |
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Program objectives (adapted from the sponsoring
organization's publicity)
SAS's
Teaching English as a Second Language Program aims to provide
an educational opportunity for those Dominican communities to whom English
lessons are not normally available, and also to establish a process
of educational-cultural exchange between Dominican communities and students
and educational professionals from other countries.
It is a year-round program that relies upon the participation
of volunteer native English speakers who come to the Dominican Republic
for a week or more to teach, to learn and to grow. The volunteers participate
in Spanish classes, learn about Dominican culture, go on tours,
live with Dominican families, and take part in social events as well as
cultural and social work activities organized.
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