getting started: teaching and learning with adult English language learners
What images, symbols and signs do people take for granted in western literate cultures?
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ESOL materials, strategies and online resources --
- The goal of this session is to help tutors become (more) knowledgeable about and comfortable with working with adult ESOL learners.
- agenda:
- introductions, burning questions
- something that's worked? something that's challenging
- getting started - building community using a grid, getting learner information
- talking about planning - chunking out time, working backwards
- developing materials: considerations, matching material to task, ability, content
- on computers: exploring various sites - share one/two that are useful, why, why not
- next steps.
- videos:
- we are new york - Learn English http://www.nyc.gov/html/weareny/html/home/home.shtml
- tales of mere existence - Saturday http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RdYEkZL9KPM
reading demonstration (to get a sense of assessing learners' strengths and needs: http://www.literacywork.com/readingdemonstration
new american horizons: demo classes - brief videos http://www.newamericanhorizons.org/
online resources
LESLLA (low educated second language and literacy acquisition) resources
USA learns: http://usalearns.org/
resources from Literacywork International; scenarios, theory, practice - rich repository of resources for classroom practice and practitioner learning
literacy resources - technology: http://www.brown.edu/lrri/tech.html
speaking and listening self-access activities for learners - although using British English, useful sites to consider: speaking: http://esol.britishcouncil.org/speak listening: http://esol.britishcouncil.org/listen-and-watch April 3, 2013