adult literacy books for people that never learned how to write in their L1s

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lbrtchx@hotmail.com - 16 Mar 2007 16:05 GMT

I am teaching a beginners ESOL + adult literacy class
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Preparing classes for these two types of students is hard. When you
teach, say, Bengali, Arabic or Chinese students to write "the strokes"
for English letters (which to them is an issue) in a class where other
students ask you "why do we have to learn that?" ;-) is not easy
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Any good books, links, etc on the subject? ... and with "good" books
that would help you come up with lesson plans not books about
"options" and philosophy of teaching/learning
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Thanks
lbrtchx

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The Serial Killfiler - 18 Mar 2007 04:29 GMT

> I am teaching a beginners ESOL + adult literacy class
>~
> Preparing classes for these two types of students is hard. When you
>teach, say, Bengali, Arabic or Chinese students to write "the strokes"
>for English letters (which to them is an issue) in a class where other
>students ask you "why do we have to learn that?" ;-) is not easy

The combination of adult literacy with ESOL is unworkable.

> Any good books, links, etc on the subject? ... and with "good" books
>that would help you come up with lesson plans not books about
>"options" and philosophy of teaching/learning

On which???

What you need is a solid scope and sequence, which any decent textbook
has. You can use it as a foundation for collecting or developing
other materials.

TSK

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adult literacy books for people that never learned how to write in their L1s