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 conference in Minneapolis that it's almost dysfunctional the way many colleges and universities handle students who speak English as a second language.

Tension often exists between faculty in the various disciplines and the campus writing center, which is where many ESL students go for language improvement.

Often faculty send students dismissively to the writing center -- and yet many writing center personnel won't handle "sentence-level" language issues, which are your basic grammar, spelling and sentence-structure errors. Those personnel, Ferris said, often say they don't get involved in such detail, and that they handle higher-level writing issues involving the flow of logic and arrangement of ideas.

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ESL expert Dana Ferris said at a recent St. Marys University conference in Minneapolis that it’s almost dysfunctional the way many colleges and universities handle students who speak English as a second language. Tension often exists between faculty in the various disciplines and the campus writing center, which is where many ESL students go for…

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