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Dear Erika, All Heide Spruck Wrigley's reading demonstration video is a great place to start as James points out, also Helen Sunderland and Marina Spiegels's book teaching basic literacy to ESOL learners. Also a researcher in the U.S. called Martha Bigelow has written some really useful stuff. Another place you could go to find plenty of useful informations is www.leslla.org<http://www.leslla.org> "LESLLA - Low Educated Second Language and Literacy Acquisition (LESLLA) for Adults is an international forum of researchers who share an interest in research on the development of second language skills by adult immigrants with little or no schooling prior to entering the country of entry". The whole issue of assessing ESOL learners with basic literacy skills is problematic. I think the best approach is a very informal chat in which you try to find out as much as you can about the student's previous educational experience perhaps combined with some reading of some CVC words e.g. big, cat etc. See if there are any possible translators around while you are interviewing, perhaps the student has come with a friend or relative. Try asking the student questions like "What's your name" and "where are you from?" and see if they can reproduce their answers in writing. Another thing you can do is ask the student questions and write down their response, then ask them to try and read the text back to you. More importantly ask yourself why you are assessing the learner. I assume it is because you are considering whether to put the them into a mainstream E1 class or some kind of pre-entry class i.e. focus on literacy before going into E1. If a student is educated and literate in their first language or other languages then E1 would be best but if they have had little formal schooling and you think they have low level literacy in their language then a pre-entry class would be best. Ask the student to write something in their language / script. You might be able to find some examples of scripts at your college to see if they recognise / read. Given that learners come from all over the world with completely different educational backgrounds (perhaps no or little formal schooling), do you think it is possible to have any kind of standardised assessment? Perhaps there are people we just can't box according to our requirements? I hope this helps. Regards Richard Gresswell ________________________________ From: ESOL-Research discussion forum and message board [[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Erika Mckone [[log in to unmask]] Sent: Friday, October 16, 2009 3:03 PM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Initial assessment for ESOL learners with basic literacy skills Has anyone come across any literature / research related to Initial Assessments for ESOL learners with basic literacy skills? I'm planning on starting a research project in this field and would be grateful if anyone could help with suggestions. King Regards, Erika Mckone ESOL tutor - Thurrock Adult Community College ________________________________ Com o Novo Internet Explorer 8 suas abas se organizam por cor. 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