Calling Young English Learners: Send Us Your Advice for the Candidates

Publication: Voice of America
Date: September 15, 2008

Summary: Elyse Eidman-Aadahl, NWP director of national programs and site development, discusses the writing project and Letters to the Next President on Voice of America's Wordmaster, a program about language and learning English.

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First off, it's really important to keep in mind how broad writing is. When we really think about the whole range of ways that people use writing—to learn, to think, to persuade each other, to communicate in work, in business, in community life—I would say one principle is that we actually need to help every student learn the whole wide range of writing.

I think another important thing to remember is that writing is a tool for learning. Most of us have probably experienced that when we try to write about something, we pretty quickly see how much we don't know about a topic.

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Arditti, Avi, and Rosanne Skirble. 2008. "Calling Young English Learners: Send Us Your Advice for the Candidates." Voice of America News, September 15.

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