You might also try to do one of the level 4 courses 'Teaching Basic Literacy 
to ESOL students' at LLU+, or given in other parts of the country by LLU+.

Details at: http://www.lsbu.ac.uk/lluesol/training.shtml#6



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From: "weir, mary" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Tuesday, May 06, 2008 1:27 PM
Subject: Re: ESOL Literacy


Try reading "Teaching Basic Literacy to ESOL Learners" by Helen
Sunderland and Marina Speigl.  It explores all this in very practical
detail.

Mary

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Sent: 06 May 2008 11:29
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Subject: ESOL Literacy



Hi everyone,

I'm currently working for a college in Nottingham and labouring through
my MA at the same time. I aim to design a course for students who are
learning English but who have little or no literacy in their first
language. In all honesty this is not something that was covered in my
teacher training and it seems a big assumption within the profession
that as we are teaching second language users, they already have all 4
skills in their first language.

Most notably I am finding the early stages of the curriculum problematic
and am finding that students are often perplexed by written materials
available for ESOL students. I've seen materials/assessments for primary
school literacy which do focus on the basics of literacy and the way
children link phonics and the spoken word to what they are seeing on a
page. However, engaging adult learners in literacy is not something that
is met by the techniques available for young learners.

Is anyone else in this situation? What approaches have you tried? What
works best in terms of effective teaching and what works best in terms
of student self esteem? What about materials?

Thank you in advance for helping me out on this.


Yours,



Alicia Bowman


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