computerdisc-l: Spanish speaking student

["Rochelle Thompson" <rft@dixie-net.com>]

Last year I had the experience that Mitzi is going through now.  I had one Comp. Discovery student who spoke no English at all and three others in 6th grade Reading.  It was a very long year, to say the least...very difficult and frustrating for me and I'm sure it was much worse for the students.  Our district provided no assistance at all to these students or to those of us who had to try and teach them.  I bought a Spanish/English dictionary on my own and we got by.  I have Glencoe in my lab, so I set her computer to speak to her in Spanish and she just basically used Glencoe all year long.  

Whenever I needed to communicate with these students, I used this website:

http://www.systranlinks.com/systran/cgi


It has a free English/Spanish translator that works really well.  You can do up to a short paragraph at a time and my students never seemed to have trouble understanding the translation.  Hope this will help Mitzi a little, and maybe others of you too.

Rochelle Thompson
Ashland Middle School