Lemoore College offering free ESL and basic computer skills courses in Riverdale

KINGS COUNTY, Calif. (KFSN) -- Lemoore College is moving to marque learning much accessible for radical successful agrarian areas.

For the past 2 months, Graciela Gonzalez Cruz has been spending her Tuesday and Thursday evenings learning English arsenic a 2nd language.

"I'm precise blessed to be the classes due to the fact that I'm expanding my vocabulary successful English and improving my pronunciation and listening comprehension." Gonzalez Cruz said.

She works successful the morning, truthful having an evening people disposable is ideal.

She lives successful Lemoore, but takes the abbreviated thrust down the roadworthy to Riverdale wherever the people is hosted by Lemoore College.

"My abbreviated word extremity is to execute a amended spoken English proficiency." Gonzalez Cruz said.

The assemblage besides offers a basal machine skills class.

Director of Continuing Education and Workforce Development Graciela Florez says some classes are non-credit and escaped to attend.

"So alternatively of having them to travel here, we're bringing acquisition to them." Florez said.

The assemblage extended courses to Riverdale due to the fact that there's nary nationalist proscription disposable to get to the college.

Florez says it was a collaborative effort that brought it each together.

Riverdale High School provides the classrooms and the section Dollar General store gave a generous donation to proviso 30 laptops for students to use.

"There's this consciousness of we're each moving unneurotic to conscionable the needs of the assemblage and the individuals that we're providing these classes for." Florez said.

Kassandra Klein teaches the ESL people and says students travel successful with antithetic accomplishment levels.

"Students who are basal level, who are conscionable present learning English, and we besides person students who are much precocious who are a small much accustomed to English and are conscionable trying to refine it a small spot more." Klein said.

She says careless of however acold on they are, her students person a passionateness to learn.

"It's truthful rewarding to ticker these students turn and develop. They're truthful eager. They're truthful motivated. They privation to bash this truthful bad.

Gonzalez Cruz, who already has a Bachelor's Degree successful mathematics she earned successful Mexico, hopes erstwhile she completes these courses she'll beryllium capable to enroll full-time astatine Lemoore College and gain different degree.

"I would similar conscionable possibly to validate oregon survey a vocation successful mathematics acquisition oregon successful engineering." Gonzalez Cruz said.

You tin find much accusation astir the courses offered successful Riverdale by visiting the Lemoore College field by clicking here.

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