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[email protected] Formal a success Grin's no joke Lady Cougars win big SXU students travel to Cuba By Patricia Foxx The Asociacion de Pedagogos Xavierite Editor Cubanos obtained visas for the group. The ESL and Bilingual Ap Unfortunately the group was proval Program, from the School of unable to attend a teaching of a high Education, prepares both future and school classroom or observe an ac certified teachers to deliver instruc tual 2nd language instruction in the tion for ESL students and students classroom. The students did inter who are culturally diverse. view professors in Cuba. As part of the course work, They were also able to talk to Sharon Adelman Reyes, Ph.D. and high school students and visit el three students Alicia Sanchez, ementary schools, and day care cen Veronica Zapata and Susan Wagner ters. traveled to Cuba, in the Havana Grades one through six are and the Pinar,del Rio considered primaria (elementary) in Province to study 2nd language in the Cuban school system. struction, which is English, in Cu Secundaria (middle school) classes ban school systems. is seven through nine and ten The trip was an extension of through twelve is preuniversitario the Cross-Cultural Studies in a Bi (high school). lingual Program class. SXU students talked to high The Center for Educational school students from the Math and Practice sponsored the student por Science Academy in the Havana tion of the trip, and the Dean of the School of Education sponsored Reyes' portion of the trip.