AVC GIVEN ESL MONEY GRANT WILL BE USED FOR COMPUTERS, ETC.Byline: Charles F. Bostwick Staff Writer LANCASTER - Antelope Valley College Antelope Valley College is a comprehensive community college located in Lancaster, California, USA. It is operated by the Antelope Valley Community College District, with a primary service area of 1,945 square miles covering portions of Los Angeles and Kern counties. received $40,000 from Verizon Foundation to buy more computers, software and other equipment for students learning English. Most of the equipment will be used to equip a room in the college Learning Center for tutoring and presentations, and where students can practice their English out of earshot ear·shot n. The range within which sound can be heard by the unaided ear; hearing distance: listened until the parade was out of earshot. of other students. ``We have so many students and so many people who move into this community who want this training, who want to improve their skills,'' AVC (1) (Advanced Video Coding) The video compression techniques used in the H.264 standard, jointly developed by ISO and the ITU-T. See H.264. (2) (Audio Visual C President Jackie Fisher said. The money will go toward providing students with DVDs, videos and computer software that helps them with grammar, pronunciation pronunciation: see phonetics; phonology. Pronunciation - In this dictionary slashes (/../) bracket phonetic pronunciations of words not found in a standard English dictionary. , vocabulary and other matters, said Scott Jenison, AVC's English as a Second Language instructor. His students regard learning English as a key to getting ahead, Jenison said. ``They're here to learn. Many of them have big families. They have more than one job,'' Jenison said. The donation fits in with Verizon Foundation's focus on programs that aid literacy, said Verizon External Affairs Manager Michael Page Michael Harry Page (born June 17, 1941) was an English cricketer. He was a right-handed batsman and a right-arm off-break bowler who played first-class cricket for Derbyshire between 1964 and 1975. He was born in Blackpool. . The foundation also focuses on preventing domestic violence and community technology, he said. The donation was made Tuesday to the college's fundraising foundation, which provides scholarships, aid for college programs and other support. ``It is very important that we have support from private and corporate (institutions) here in this valley,'' foundation board President Helen Acosta said. AVC English as a Second Language students said the classes are helpful. ``Last October I moved to Palmdale from San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden . When I came here I was a little bit nervous,'' said Fung Poon poon n. Any of several trees of the genus Calophyllum, of southern Asia, having light hard wood used for masts and spars. [Sinhalese p , whose native language is Chinese. ``But the center really benefited me.'' Charles F. Bostwick, (661) 267-5742 chuck.bostwick(at)dailynews.com |
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