Respect is the one big reoccurring word in this chapter. A lot of ELD students have cultures that a founded upon respect. They want to be respected and not treated like children trying to speak for the first time ever. Just because they are from different background and can't speak English well doesn't mean they should be treated any differently.
A lot of ELD students want to make friends, but don't know how. If they attempt to talk to people whose first language is English they get laughed at or shied away from. Teaching an ELD student is very challenging, but you can't hand them anything they didn't earn and they wouldn't want it any other way. Sometimes, ELD students take higher level classes just to hear extensive vocabulary so they can learn the vocabulary and not necessarily the material.
I can slightly understand their situation. i took Spanish for eight years and I had friends whose first language was Spanish. I learned more from hanging out with my friends than I did in class. I could learn five vocabulary words each class or fifteen from hanging around with my friends all day.
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