Language Difficulties: Language Teacher

Buzzer Dept: An English-as-a-second language teacher in Dartmouth, N.S., McDonald spends her afternoons teaching one-on-one lessons in the homes of new Canadians who can't - or won't -attend her public classes. A year and a half ago, she started working with a woman who'd immigrated from Afghanistan with her 14-year-old son and 12-year-old daughter, according to Montreal Gazette. to answer any question and at first, Annette McDonald couldn't even make eye contact with her student. From the way the boy slipped out of the apartment without speaking to her and slammed the door each time she visited, McDonald sensed he was embarrassed about his mother's language difficulties. The woman herself was so traumatized by her experiences in her home country that she wouldn't look McDonald in the eye or answer the buzzer at first, so her daughter came home from school every day at lunch to open the door, then sat perched on the couch, fixated on the teacher and ready As reported in the news.
@t english as a second language, montreal gazette