{"id":58,"date":"2013-10-21T02:51:13","date_gmt":"2013-10-21T02:51:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceman.com\/blog\/?p=58"},"modified":"2013-10-21T02:51:13","modified_gmt":"2013-10-21T02:51:13","slug":"project-adult-literacy-society-a-very-noble-cause","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scienceman.com\/blog\/?p=58","title":{"rendered":"Project Adult Literacy Society &#8211; A Very Noble Cause!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When people think about English as a Second Language (ESL), we often don&#8217;t consider the full implications of needing to get proper language training. It&#8217;s often a lot more serious than just being able to participate in everyday conversation.<\/p>\n<p>Consider that many immigrants may want to qualify for colleges or training programs. For example, how do you pass an entrance exam for a science program, when you don&#8217;t know science vocabulary in the English language?<\/p>\n<p>Thankfully, there are some wonderful programs out there that help to bridge the gap. For example, there is the wonderful <a href=\"http:\/\/palsedmonton.blogspot.ca\/\">P.A.L.S program (Project Adult Literacy Society<\/a>) &#8211; in Edmonton, P.A.L.S. connects volunteer tutors with those who need ESL assistance.<\/p>\n<p>But this type of program is highly dependent on volunteers &#8211; so if you can help out, please consider donating a couple of hours of your time here and there.  It certainly is for a great cause.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When people think about English as a Second Language (ESL), we often don&#8217;t consider the full implications of needing to get proper language training. It&#8217;s often a lot more serious than just being able to participate in everyday conversation. Consider that many immigrants may want to qualify for colleges or training programs. For example, how [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-container-style":"default","site-container-layout":"default","site-sidebar-layout":"default","disable-article-header":"default","disable-site-header":"default","disable-site-footer":"default","disable-content-area-spacing":"default","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scienceman.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scienceman.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scienceman.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scienceman.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scienceman.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/scienceman.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59,"href":"https:\/\/scienceman.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58\/revisions\/59"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scienceman.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scienceman.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scienceman.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}