Schools in the U.S Teaching Spanish With New Method
Learning Spanish is becoming more important for Americans every day, so the pilot launch of an interactive learning program in schools is being carried out to create a new model for introducing the United States’ second-most-spoken language into the country’s educational system.
E.L. Haynes Public Charter School in Washington has been the first to employ the new program that enables students to study Spanish on their own computers using specialized software.
The fact is that Washington’s large Hispanic presence makes it increasingly necessary to adjust public-school education to the needs of each student.
“We have students who are ethnically Latinos but know nothing of Spanish, or they can speak it but not write it, and there are others who speak no English at all,” the school’s founder and head, Jennie Nyles, told Efe.
Teacher Teresa Danskey said that this software provides ninth-grade students with Spanish classes that