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Smith Reporter The lack of properly trained “English as a Second Language” teachers is one of many factors that contributes to many foreign students’ inability to comprehend English successfully, A&M associate professor Viola Flores says. Flores, of the Department of Educa tion Curriculum and Instruction, says that children whose native language is not English have a difficult time learning English in American schools and have even greater difficulty writing English. The entire concept of writing stresses the teaching of grammar, she says. How ever, it is necessary to balance that con cept with the teaching of creative writ ing. “Writing wasn’t looked at as an inte grated part of English,” she says. Flores began looking into classrooms to see if writing instruction existed for foreign children. She says she was sur prised to see the lack of educational as sistance they received. Non-American children are not receiv ing the proper educational tools they need to understand and write English better, she says. Better English instruction is essential, Flores says: “By the year 2000, over 50 percent of students entering school will be of a different language and culture.” Among reasons for the foreign stu dents’ poor English writing skills, Flores cites a lack of properly trained ESL (En glish as a Second Language) teachers and college students majoring in ESL programs and the teaching process within the public school system. Because of the demand for ESL teach ers, in most areas they are paid more than teachers that are not ESL-certified, she says. Most teachers teach in a very struc tured fashion, which does not allow for the freedom of instruction that is needed in an ESL classroom setting, she says. But the teaching programs that deviate from the standard structured program are the ones with the highest student success rate. Those schools show the greatest im provement on English literacy tests. Flores says she looked at different ap proaches to teaching writing. Frequently, children don’t know enough English to write in English so we asked the question: ‘What about writing in their language?’ ” she says. Students were encouraged to write in their own language if they didn’t know how to write in English, she says, which increased the creative writing abilities of students and de-emphasized the impor tance of grammar and correct puncua- tion. With that approach, more students were able to write sentences that were less fragmented and somewhat flowing with a thought process, she says. Correct grammar and puncuation are important in learning English, but they aren’t the only factors to consider, she says. Hispanic agents claim FBI intimidated them EL PASO (AP) — The FBI has ha rassed and intimidated Hispanic agents who successfully sued the bureau for ra cial discrimination, according to docu ments filed Thursday in U.S. District Court. Attorneys for the Hispanic agents asked U.S. District Judge Lucius Bunton to issue an injunction prohibiting the FBI from the alleged retaliatory acts. The 32-page brief filed before the court includes affidavits from the lead plaintiff in the case and two others, all of whom contend they were retaliated against after Bunton ruled Sept. 30 that the FBI had discriminated against His- panics in assignments and promotions. Schwein could have taken administrative action against him. Schwein said Thursday some of Perez’ allegations were untrue and some were misunderstandings. Hugo Rodriguez, lead attorney for the plaintiffs, said Wednesday he believes the FBI is searching for spurious grounds to fire some agents who joined the suit or tq pressure them into quitting. Asked about the impending court doc uments, FBI spokesman Gregory Jones in Washington said Wednesday: “Our response ... is basically any intimida tion or retaliation would be illegal and intolerable, and would result in an FBI Judge orders body exhumed from grave inquiry. The three agents named in the affida vits testified in the two-week, non-jury trial in August. The 311 agents who joined the class-action suit successfully argued that the FBI assigned them less- desirable jobs, promoted them too slowly and didn’t recognize them for their successes. The case was filed in January 1987 by Bernardo “Matt” Perez, the No. 2 agent in the El Paso office. In an affidavit filed Thursday, Perez contends that since Bunton’s verdict was announced, “I have been purposely divorced from many of the administrative operations of the office, and from my day-to-day man agement responsibilities. ” Perez contends that Richard Schwein, the agent in charge of the El Paso office, called a meeting the afternoon the verdict was announced and forbade all the bu reau employees from talking about the discrimination case, on or off duty. Perez also says that on the same day Schwein called in a Hispanic agent who had talked to reporters about the case on Sept. 30 and intimidated him by saying HOUSTON (AP) — A judge ordered the body of an 84-year-old woman who died in September exhumed from a paup er’s grave to determine if foul play was involved in her death. Wednesday’s ruling by State District Judge Alice Trevathan was in response to a lawsuit filed by the dead woman’s two nieces. Deanne Kinney and Jeanne Sapping- ton, 59, of Tomball, twin nieces of Lena Mae Wille, told the judge they didn’t learn of their aunt’s Sept. 16 death at Hermann Park Manor nursing home until three weeks later. The women said they didn’t know their aunt had died until they called to check on her Oct. 9. The sisters said their attempts to learn the cause of their aunt’s death have been met “with barbaric hostility and an un explainable lack of cooperation on the part of Hermann Park Manor. ’ ’ The judge ordered Wille’s body to be transferred from a county cemetery to a crypt next to her husband’s tomb in San Antonio’s Mission Burial Park. The judge also ordered that an autopsy be performed and gave the nursing home 10 days to provide the woman’s medical records needed for the autopsy. 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