Wednesday, July 16, 1986
Campus/Area
University Daily Kansan
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Center helps foreign students develop English proficiency
By Rachelle Worrall
Staff writer
Foreign students studying at KU have more obstacles to overcome than homesickness.
Many foreign students arrive unable to understand and speak English, so the Applied English students prepare the students for their classes.
Pablo Valencia, 20. Colombia freshman, is enrolled in a beginning English course this summer. He speaks little English but wanted to come to KU to study computer science.
He arrived in the United States seven months ago and has difficulty understanding English. Although he is very fluent, Valencia said, he likes the classes.
This summer there are about 150 foreign students enrolled in the center's courses, said Dean Gregory, associate director of the AEC and one of its instructors. The classes are based on non-native speakers of English.
Credits from AEC courses do not apply toward any degree, and students often take as many as 12 ACE credit hours.
The AEC offers courses in reading, writing, speaking and English grammar. Students can take courses in these subjects as well as passed the proficiency exam, he said.
According to the Rules and Regulations of the Faculty Senate, all international students whose native language is not English are required to take AEC courses unless they pass a proficiency exam.
The AEC has had increasing enrollment each year since it began about 20 years ago, Gregory said. About 380 students were enrolled in the fall and spring semesters during the fall and spring semesters.
The students need to be able to understand their lectures, not have systematic errors in reading and writing. The student should stop too many definitions, Gregory said.
"I think they're very similar to American students. They're all extremes," Gregory said. "I don't think we find very many below-average students. It's too expensive to come to America to study."
The attraction to studying in the
United States is that there are more areas of study offered and some countries don't have enough universities, he said.
Amran Gambut, one of the Indonesian teachers, said he wanted a higher position and the government should allow him, so he decided to come and study.
Last spring, the majority of the students were Asian, but trends change every few years depending on political and economic changes.
The Indonesian government is paying for 18 Indonesian teachers to study at KU to further their education. Gregory said.
Gambut, 37, taught electrical engineering in Indonesia and had to leave his wife at home while he is studying here.
Harvest of Kansas wheat completed in record time
United Press International
TOPEKA — The state Crop and Livestock Reporting Service has declared the 1986 Kansas wheat crop as one of the earliest completion in 12 years.
With only a few fields in north-central and northeast Kansas remaining to be cut this week, the service procured the harvest 100
Usually by mid-July the crop is 85 percent harvested. This is the earliest completion since 1974.
percent finished.
The crop is estimated at 326.4 million bushels. The final official-production figures are due Aug. 11. With both the acreage and the per-acre yield down, this year's crop is one fourth smaller than in 1985.
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