This article proposes that the Monitor Model adequately predicts the problem of teaching English as a second language (TESL) to the previously uneducated and can indicate a solution. The basic problem is managerial and does not indicate a lack in the underpinnings of the TESL field. The key is to integrate the ESL program with the larger resettlement program.

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