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September 01, 2009

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Visa Vie: Two Portraits of the F-1 Experience

Row upon row of the white and hard plastic tablet armchairs found in L or M, carry them for a good four hours per class. Some of the students in these rooms have just begun while others begin again. The mature and the callow, the lonely and alone, men and women, Nigerian and Colombian, Iraqi and Russian, they sit elbow to elbow here to speak a second tongue; write in a second hand: the American, once a world away. College-wide there are approximately 885 students within the English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) program at Oakland Community College (OCC). Eight hundred international students on F-1 visas represent a portion of those within the ESL curriculum who must pass its language requirements before advancing to their desired concentration. “ESL is not my major,” Mike Amorim said. Yet when faced with the possibility of losing his visa after neglecting his studies, he admits almost dispiritedly that, “If I’m to stay here, I’m to study ––nothing else.” “Here, the teachers ...

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