Syllabus, in word; download here
Weekly summaries; first writing assignment, in word; download here
The ERIC Clearinghouse provides a number of brief reports (digests, practice application briefs) related to basic adult education. The Center for Adult English Language Acquisition(formerly the NCLE clearinghouse) provides similar documents, focussing on adult English language.
The New England Literacy Resource Center
another portal to the ERIC database.
National Center for Adult Literacy - information and articles focused on adult education and literacy. Includes lesson, model programs, academic articles, books-in-progress.
Center for Applied Linguistics (CAL) The Center for Applied Linguistics is a private nonprofit organization that is made up of a group of scholars and educators who use the field of linguistics to address language related problems. The aim of the center is to promote and improve the teaching and learning of languages, identify and solve problems related to language and culture, and to serve as a resource for information.
NCELA, the National Clearinghouse for English Language Acquisition and Language Instruction Educational Programs (formerly NCBE, the National Clearinghouse for Bilingual Education) is funded by the U.S. Department of Education's Office of English Language Acquisition, Language Enhancement & Academic Achievement for Limited English Proficient Students (OELA, formerly OBEMLA) to collect, analyze, and disseminate information relating to the effective education of linguistically and culturally diverse learners in the U.S.
National Association for Bilingual Education (NABE) - professional advocacy association. Its site has a host of information on teaching strategies, current research, and national and regional conferences that focus on bilingual education.
Maine's Bilingual and ESL Site - Barney Berube, bilingual/ESL specialist, maintains a site that provides valuable information on LAU plans, ESL standards, and best practices in bilingual education.
Center for Research on Education, Diversity and Excellence (CREDE) - information on the education of linguistic and cultural minority students that are placed at risk due to race, poverty, or geographic location. This is a wonderful resource for teachers and administrators interested in serving these children.
The Institute for People's Education and Action seeks to identify, support, and facilitate community-based, learner-led education as a strategic tool for community organizing and democratic social change. IPEA is a membership-based resource network comprised of individuals and organizations throughout North America.
Adult English Language Instruction in the 21st Century - " ...overview of the field of adult English as a secondlanguage instruction in the United States today. First, it places adult ESL in the broader context of the U.S. education system, and then it describes trends and issues in the areas of program design and instructional practice, assessment, teacher training and professsional development, integration of research and practice, and technology. Adult English Language Instruction in the 21st Century, researched and written by NCLE staff members Carol Van Duzer and MaryAnn Cunningham Florez, is available in .pdf format in English or Spanish. "
Principles of adult language and literacy learning - part of the cyberstep project, linking adult learning principles to sepcific examples of web sites/activities/practice.
Adult Learning Principles from the Study Place
Tips for ESOL/literacy teachers from Bringing Literacy to Life by Heide Wrigley and Gloria Guth.
Adult Learning: An Overview by Stehpen Brookfield
Using Adult Learning Principles in Adult Basic and Literacy Education ED425336 Susan Imel 1998
Adult and Continuing Education from About.com -- surprising collection of resources from a relatively mainstream provider; See also About's Adult Basic Education/Literacy sites
Adult Education ESL Teachers Guide - ADULT EDUCATION CENTER TEXAS A&I UNIVERSITY KINGSVILLE, TEXAS Written and Produced by C. Ray Graham and Mark M. Walsh.
A definition of literacy from the Centre for Literacy in Quebec
Demystifying Adult Literacy for Volunteer Tutors - A Reference Handbook and Resource Guide, written by Charlene L. Ball, Produced by Literacy Partners of Manitoba. A reference handbook and resource guide including background information gathered from a variety of different sources in adult literacy, describing various kinds of programs and providing general information about adult literacy and learning.
Bringing Literacy to Life:Issues and Options in Adult ESL Literacy. Wrigley, Heide Spruck; Guth, Gloria J. A. ERIC No. ED348896
readings: diversity, culture
from The Change Agent - working across differences or other articles - on line as PDF document; other issues of the change agent also available at http://www.nelrc.org/changeagent/
The Holistic/Rainbow Approach to Aboriginal Literacy - Work in Progress by Priscilla George, Ningwakwe / Rainbow Woman, Chippewas of Saugeen First Nation, Ontario
Refugee Service Center, Center for Applied Linguistics
Digests on specific populations - chose two to summarise/discuss.
Focus On Basics, Volume 6, Issue B, focus on "isms"
The Asian American Comic Book 1991, by ASIAN AMERICAN RESOURCE WORKSHOP and WEN-TI TSEN.
Making Connections: Literacy and EAL from a Feminist Perspective, and accompanying resource guides: Anti-racist/Culture-Based approaches and Guided reflections for Facilitators.
one critique of Making Connections
TESOL Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender & Friends Caucus (LGBTF)
Adult Education and Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgendered Communities Trends and Issues Alert No. 21, by Sandra Kerka, 2001
Special Issue: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender People and Education Harvard Educational ReviewVolume 66 Number 2, Summer 1996
Sexual Identities in ESL: Queer Theory and Classroom Inquiry, Connie Nelson, (1999), TESOL Quarterly
Bright IdeasVol. 9, No. 3 (Winter 2000), Theme: Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Issues in ABE
Stereotype and Discrimination Activity Websites; site included among a listing ofonline resources for promoting cultural understanding in the adult ESL classroom
unpacking white privilege
Diversity Vs. White Privilege in Rethinking Schools, Volume 15, No. 2 - Winter 2000 / 2001
Unpacking the invisible knapsack by Peggy McIntosh
another version of the invisible knapsack
annual conference on White Privilege
from The Change Agent - working across differences [listed as Diversity], and/or other articles
Symposium: Ethnicity and Education Harvard Educational ReviewSummer 1997 Issue
Special Issue on Immigration and Education Harvard Educational ReviewFall, 2001; including full text of Globalization, Immigration, and Education: The Research Agenda MARCELO M. SUAREZ-OROZCO , Harvard University, Volume 71 Number 3 (pp. 345-365).
Eliminating Ableism in Education Thomas Hehir, Harvard Educational ReviewVolume 72, Number 1, Spring 2002.
Culturally Responsive Teaching resources from the Knowledge Loom
excerpts from Lost in Translation by Eva Hoffman. (click on the book image - "look inside").
readings: participatory practice
Reading The World Freirean "liberatory education" promotes literacy, empowerment, and the chance to rehearse for social change; An Interview with Klaudia Rivera, by Ruth Pelz. [One of the articles in The Ecology Of Media (IC#23) Fall 1989, Page 42 Copyright (c)1989, 1997 by Context Institute]
Paulo Freire - basic overview and bibliographic references
Rivera, K. M. (1999). Popular research and social transformation: a community-based approach to critical pedagogy . TESOL Quarterly, 33, 485-500; also available in PDF as part of the entire special issue of Tesol Quarterly on Critical Approaches to TESOL.
Adult Education: Social Change or Status Quo? ERIC Digest No. 176.
Popular Education: Adult Education for Social Change ERIC Digest No. 185, Sandra Kerka, 1997
New Teacher Toolkit Section 2: Principles of Adult Learning 2-2: The Adult Learner in a Participatory Learning Environment (word document) Emily Miller Payne
What is Critical Literacy? Ira Shor, College of Staten Island, CUNY, Journal for Pedagogy, Pluralism & Practice,Issue 4 vol.1: Fall 1999
10 key stages towards effective participatory curriculum
Beyond facilitation in adult education: power dynamics in teaching and learning practices Juanita Johnson-Bailey and Ronald M. Cervero, University of Georgia, USA;27th Annual SCUTREA conference proceedings 1997, Crossing borders, breaking boundaries : Research in the education of adults.
Civic Participation and Community Action Sourcebook
Professional Connections - the Australian National Centre for English Language Teaching and Research's national professional development website for teachers in the Adult Migrant English Program (AMEP) - and for adult TESOL, literacy and vocational education professionals as well.
TESOL Quarterly Special - topic issue: Adult Literacies Volume 27, Number 3, 1993.
Globalization, Immigration, and Education: The Research Agenda by MARCELO M. SUçREZ-OROZCO ,Harvard University Harvard Educational ReviewVolume 71 Number 3, Fall 2001, ISSN 0017-8055 (pp. 345-365); part of a larger issue on Immigration and Education
Ethnography for classrooms: constructing a reflective curriculum for literacy, Mary Hamilton, Curriculum Stuides, Volume 7, Number 3, 1999.
Incorporating Student Voice into Teaching Practice. 1999 ERIC Digest by John Kordalewski.
organizations: education, social change
The Right Question Project, a grassroots Somerville, MA-based organization developing and implementing educational and training strategies for people who have traditionally been disengaged from decision-making processes that affect them. Participants acquire concrete analytic and critical thinking skills that allow them to ask 'the right questions' to enable them to advocate for themselves, to participate in decision-making processes that affect them and their families, and to hold those decision-makers and decision-making processes accountable."classroom resources
Teacher Resources from NALD, Canada's National Adult Literacy Database - links to a wide range of topics and approaches.
The Study Place - "a Web-based authoring tool that offers adult educators a simple way to create and deliver online learning activities to their adult learners. Learners can access The Study Place Web site either as part of a class or as independent self-directed learners. Once there, they can use any of the high quality, multimedia learning activities that teachers have created."
Center for Adult English Language Acquisition digests - see the entire list
Teaching Adults - is it different? - Susan Imel 1995, ERIC Clearninghouse
revised edition of Teaching Adults - is it different? Sandra Kerka, 2002
1989 version of Teaching Adults - is it different?
Teaching Low-Level Adult ESL LearnersGrace Massey Holt, 1995, Digest
Teaching Multilevel Adult ESL Classes by Cathy C. Shank and Lynda R. Terrill
Trauma and the Adult English Language Learner by Janet Isserlis(2000, NCLE Digest)
Mental Health and the Adult Refugee: The Role of the ESL Teacher by by Myrna Ann Adkins, Barbara Sample,and Dina Birman, (1999, NCLE Digest)
L1, L2, Native language literacy
Using L1 in the L2 Classroom,C. William Schweers, Jr. ForumVol 37 No 2, April - June 1999.
Native Language Literacy and Adult ESL Instruction Klaudia Rivera, 1999, NCLE digest
Auerbach, E. 1993. Reexaming English only in the ESL classroom. TESOL Quarterly 27, Volume 1, pp. 9Ð32; (for the the special TESOL Quarterly volume 27 on ESL literacy); critique of the article
learners, teachers
Beginning ESOL Learners' Advice to Their Teachers by MaryAnn Cunningham Florez in Focus on Basics, Vol 5, Issue A ¥ August 2001
Learner Generated Materials Every Day - basic overview of generating and utilizing Language Experience Approach writing with basic level learners
film, video
Taking Root - and http://www.takingroot.org
Nava, Gregory (dir.) Mi Familia (My Family). New Line Cinema (USA); Gregory Nava biography
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publishers
Fernwood Publishing - Fernwood books address sociological, political, and social work issues, with a particular sensitivity to the concerns of class, race, and gender.
Grassroots Press - teachers' press addressing ABE, ESOL and professional development.
Linmore Publishling - A teachers' press specializing in ESL, adult basic education, literacy, and content area ESL for Secondary and Adult Learners
Annotated list of ESOL publishers from the National Center for ESL Literacy Education
journals
ColorLines Magazine Race, Culture, Action
Too Much (United for a Fair Economy)
recommended texts
Principles of Language Learning and Teaching, 3rd edition H. Douglas Brown (1994); additionally, a search at Google.com ["Douglas Brown+grammar"] yields a number of online grammar activities culled from Brown's texts
Making Meaning, Making Change.Elsa Roberts Auerbach(McHenry, IL: Delta Systems and the Center for Applied Linguistics, 1992).
Bringing Literacy to Life by Heide Wrigley and Gloria Guth
Community Partnerships Elsa Auerbach, Editor
Talking Shop: A Curriculum Sourcebook for Participatory Adult ESL by Andrea Nash, Ann Cason, Madeline Rhum, Loren McGrail, and Rosario Gomez-Sanford. The book is out of print, but reviews and excerpts are available through a search
A Handbook for ESL Literacy. by Jill Bell and Barbara Burnaby, (Ontario: Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, 1993). ESL for Literacy Learners - Centre for Canadian Language Benchmarks
Participatory Practices in Adult Education Pat Campbell and Barbara Burnaby, eds. (2001) Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. Bell, J. (1991). Teaching Multi-Level Classes in ESL. San, CA: Dominie Press. Massachusetts frameworks - overview, and Framework for Adult ESOL in the state of Massachusetts(a PDF document) LR/RI ESOL page Preparing Secondary Education Teachers to Work with English
Language Learners: MATH Preparing Secondary Education Teachers to Work with English
Language Learners: ENGLISH LANGUAGE ARTS; see also (a href ="http://www.ncela.gwu.edu/pubs/resource/ells/"> resources for teaching science and social studies
Other Colors: Stories of Women Immigrants Martin, Rachel: Teacher's Guide, 1996 Schreiber, Tatiana: Radio Project, 1994
to receive a copy of the syllabus for this course, please contact Janet Isserlis.
October 8, 2005
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