My Student's English Ability Scare

One of my ELSA 4 students had a “scare” last night. She turned on the TV while she was cooking not really paying attention to what she was watching. She told me she just wanted to have English constantly surrounding her so that she can get used to being in an English speaking environment. This went on for almost two hours until she started to panic. She didn’t understand anything! Not even one sentence. She yelled to her son to come into the living room because she couldn’t understand the TV show. She said to her son, “I have to go back to ELSA 1! My listening ability has gotten worse from speaking too much Chinese.” Her son took one look at the TV show and said, “Mom, you are watching the French channel.”