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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 ----- Original Message ----- From: "weir, mary" <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> 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 ________________________________ From: ESOL-Research discussion forum and message board [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Alicia Lopatinsky Sent: 06 May 2008 11:29 To: [log in to unmask] 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. 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