Taking the Show on the Road
by Susan M. Gorga and Jeffrey J. Mondak IN 1997 AND 1998, we team-taught political science courses at Babes-Bolyai University, in Cluj-Napoca, Romania. The students all had studied English, but their proficiency was varied. We were cognizant of the problems students would have understanding instruction in English, but we were unable to teach in Romanian. To address this problem, we designed courses using content-based instruction in English as a second language (ESL). This article describes our experience. The Language Barrier Most students we met in Romania had some knowledge of English, but few were sufficiently skilled in English to follow a […]
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