Thesis: ESL classes are important, but could be more important if they provided education for ESL students that would go beyond learning basic language skills, and furnished the opportunity of learning culture as well as help with assimilating with a new society.
I chose English as a Second Language as my subject because it makes a very important part of my own educational experience. I wished that ESL classes prepared me to better communicate academically as well as socially. It is an issue for many emigrants. Many non-native speakers never go beyond the basic use of a second language and without help, close themselves in their own ethnic communities.
