ELD（英语语言发展）是一个针对移民学生提高生英语学习和应用能力而设计的教学课程。范志静老师一直以来致力于ELD的教学，鉴于她双语的背景和多年的教学知识和技能，能够有效的帮助和解决英语学习者面临的障碍和文化意识不同带来的交流障碍。
范志静在阿亚拉担当ELD老师和部门负责人已经是九个年头了，她的学生来自于世界各国，像是中国、台湾、 韩 国、 古 巴、 墨 西 哥、 巴 西、中东来的国家、 埃及、有阿拉伯等等。
“我最喜欢的部分就是看到孩子们成长,从第一天来到这边,什么都听不懂。然后在高中的时候,突然有一天，【学生】告诉我,’我要出ELD program 了’ 。我觉得这是一个最大的喜悦,就是看到他们的进步跟成长,” 范志静说。
学生们从注意力不集中到期待她每日的课堂，范志静深知非英语母语的学生面临着许多挑战，因此常常鼓励他们大胆开口。她用耐心和关爱为学生们架起了沟通的基础。 她常常让外语学生配对做练习和小组做练习， 不仅让他们加深了解、建立友情，更便于让他们学习美国文化和习俗。
”我每天都可以在这里度过愉快的时光，” 万昊林(9)说。”有时候老师会让我们做好玩的游戏， 提升了我的英语水平，然后让我教到了我朋友.”
ELD 旨在让学生逐渐适应课内的学习环境，最终的目标是重新被鉴定。 而重新被鉴定的学生得以和本地学生一样的学习、听课、做功课,然后一样的成功。而这往往是十分困难的。
“有些学生因为语言障碍听不懂课就会觉得无聊或者是开小差，这种情况下我就会请家长到学校开家长会，寻找帮助学生的方法，”范志静说。
在尝试过无数的教学方法并与家长交流后， 学生的积极性有效的调动起来并积极地参与课堂。
“你看他的眼神就看得出来他开始在改变。 他变得阳光变得 active 起来了。然后你会发现他们彼此就开始成朋友。然后呢，上个礼拜我让他们展示他们的 talent。展示 talent的时候会发现原本很不自信的学生，他很多同学都不知道但他竟然还会吹小号，他会弹黑管，然后还有的同学唱歌唱得特别好，” 范志静说。
如今，虽然这些学生已经进入了更高的阶段，但范老师在他们心中的影响依然深刻。
“ELD给我带来了太多收获。首先是英语使用方面的提升，我越来越感觉我英语使用的越来越流畅，越来越接近于本地人。而且ELD对我考试ELPAC还有一些其他考试帮助很大。我从最开始的有点读不太懂每道题题目的意思到能顺利的答出来每一道题，并且取得一个不错的成绩,” 前ELD学生李昕泽(9)说。
同样地，范老师的教学风格也深受学生喜爱.
“范老师的教学我可以认为是我遇到过教的特别好的那一类老师了，她的教学主要分词汇、阅读、还有写作。听、说、读、写四个方面，这四个方面他每一个方面我都认为做到了我能理解的最好，我能很好的吸收课堂上的所有知识，”李昕泽(9)说。
Translation:
ELD (English Language Development) is a teaching course designed for immigrant students to improve their English learning and application abilities. Zhijing Fan has been committed to ELD teaching. Given her bilingual background and many years of teaching knowledge and skills, she can effectively help and solve the obstacles faced by English learners and communication barriers caused by different cultural background.
Fan has been an ELD teacher and department head at Ayala for nine years. Her students come from all over the world, such as China, Taiwan, South Korea, Cuba, Mexico, Brazil, countries from the Middle East, Egypt, Arab countries, etc.
“My favorite part is seeing the kids grow up. From the first day they come here where they don’t understand anything, and then in high school, one day, [the student] told me, ‘I want to get into the ELD program.’ I think this is the greatest joy, just to see their progress and growth,” Fan said.
Students have gone from being inattentive to looking forward to her daily classes. Fan knows that non-native English speakers face many challenges, so she often encourages them to speak boldly. She used her patience and care to build a foundation of communication for the students. She often lets foreign language students do exercises in pairs and groups, which not only allows them to deepen their understanding and build friendships, but also makes it easier for them to learn American culture and customs.
“I enjoy being here every day,” Haolin Wan (9) said. “Sometimes the teacher will ask us to play fun games, which improves my English speaking skill and then allows me to teach my friends.”
ELD aims to allow students to gradually adapt to the learning environment in class, with the ultimate goal of being re-classified. Students who have been re-classified can study, attend classes, and do homework the same as local students, and achieve the same success. However, this is often very difficult.
“Some students get bored or get distracted because they cannot understand the class due to language barriers. In this case, I will invite parents to the school to hold a parent-teacher meeting to find ways to help the students,” Fan said.
After trying countless teaching methods and communicating with parents, students were effectively motivated and actively participated in the class.
“You can tell by the look in their eyes that they are starting to change. They become brighter and more active, and then you will find that they start to become friends with each other,” Fan said. “Last week I asked them to show their talents. When showing talent, I found that a student who was originally very shy and introverted—unbeknowst to his classmates—he could actually play the trumpet and the clarinet.”
Now, although some of these students have moved on, Fan’s influence in their studies is still profound.
“ELD has brought me a lot of gains. It has improved my English use, I feel that my English is becoming more and more fluent and closer to the locals, and ELD has some advantages for me to take the ELPAC [English Language Proficiency Assessment of California] exam,” a former ELD student Li Xinze (9) said. “I went from not understanding the meaning of each question to being able to answer every question smoothly and achieve good results.”
Likewise, Fan’s teaching style is also loved and appreciated by students.
“Teacher Fan’s teaching is considered to be one of the best teachers I have ever encountered,” Li said. “Her teaching focuses on the four aspects of listening, speaking, reading, and writing. In each of these four aspects, I think she has done it in a way I can better understand, and so I can absorb all the knowledge in the class very well.”
