By Sam, Palo Alto School ESL Student
My partner is Esther. She is from Taiwan. She likes headlines, entertainment and international news.She goes online and uses Yahoo news. Sometimes she reads the local newspaper like Daily News. She does not believe everything that write on, due to she think sometimes the news were censored.
Post-secondary ESL students from colleges and adult schools in the Bay Area check out how their peers find out about news by asking the following questions. 1) Do you follow the news? 2) What interests you? 3) Where do you look? 4) Who do you believe? 5) Are your perspectives being represented? Please identify news sources by name or website where possible.
San Jose State University
Monday, October 17, 2011
A Korean Woman and News
By Moneh, Palo Alto Adult School ESL Student
Her name is Lim. She is from Korea. She is 47. She is interested in news. She often reads the news from the internet, but sometimes she hears news from TV when she is exercising. The sites that she follows are CNN, Yahoo, Google and Naver. She is curious about the economy, education and world news. She trusts these sites and believes what she reads from them.
Her name is Lim. She is from Korea. She is 47. She is interested in news. She often reads the news from the internet, but sometimes she hears news from TV when she is exercising. The sites that she follows are CNN, Yahoo, Google and Naver. She is curious about the economy, education and world news. She trusts these sites and believes what she reads from them.
Thursday, October 13, 2011
Ms. Hanna Park

I would like to introduce my partner in CERV class. Her name is Hanna. She is from Korea, Seoul. Now she lives in San Jose with her roommate. She is a student in Studies in American Language in San Jose State University to improve her English skills for example, reading, writing, and oral communication. Hanna follows the news from internet every day. She is very interested in lifestyle and people’s life around the world. She exceptionally likes fashion because she wants to improve her knowledge about her lifestyle. Hanna believes Ms. Juhakim, a famous journalist in Korea. She is very interesting to follows her articles. Hanna always believes Juhakim's articles because she is really right when she write a subject.
Wednesday, October 12, 2011
Monday, October 10, 2011
Rayan H. Alhawiti
I want to introduce my classmate Rayan. He is from Saudi Arabia and lives in San Jose. He is a student in Studies in American Language in San Jose State University. He follows the news from friends and internet. Especially, he interested in Engineering and Green Building. Because of his major. He likes social community. And also he likes share a news on socieal community.
Reported by Hanna
Reported by Hanna
Thursday, October 6, 2011
About Abdulmalik
Abdulmalik is from Saudi Arabia, Damman in east Saudi. He studied management in college. He doesn't like to follow the news much, but sometimes he searches imformations from internet news. He likes to read about sports, economies and communties. And he is really interested in cultural part. In fact, he doesn't read articles much, but ,from now on,he will try to read more. And he will get more interest about society.
Reported by Eunjeong La
Reported by Eunjeong La
Monday, October 3, 2011
And News Again!!!
On friday I interviewed Martini Mok, who studies ESL150, at City College in San Francisco.She is from Hong Kong and has been in San Francisco for three months.
Katrin:Do you follow the news?
Martini:Yes, every day.
Katrin:What interests you?
Martini:Sports, entertainment, local news, sometimes Taiwan news and entertainment.
Katrin:Where do you look?
Martini:In the newspaper "The Examiner", yahoo.com, BBC, CNN, Taiwan news.
Katrin:Who do you believe?
Martini:Just sports because the result can not be changed.
Katrin:Are your perspectives being represented?
Martini:Yes, sports, for example, giants lost their game few days ago when they played with LA Doggers.The author was sad about that and I am really sad about it too.
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