Introduction to the Help! Kit:
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June, 2001 that we will be updating more regularly. Please bookmark
and use the following site. The new Help! Kit for Teachers of
Secondary students will soon be available at the new site. Click
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The first Help! They Don't Speak English Starter Kit
was produced in 1989 by a task force of Virginia migrant
educators who were getting an increasing number of requests from
classroom teachers for information about and assistance with their
limited English proficient (LEP) students. The Help! Kit
has proved to be an excellent resource for teachers who are seeking
ideas for recommended teaching strategies, lesson plans, and materials.
It is important to emphasize that most of the strategies promoted
here are recommended strategies for all students, not just
LEP students.
The only way to get this Help! Kit for
Teachers of Young Adults is to download the kit in *.pdf
format. Click on any of the sections below to download them. If
you are not familiar with the *.pdf format you can check it out
and get a free
copy of the Adobe Acrobat Reader by clicking on the Get A
crobat Reader icon.
INTRODUCTION |
The Adult Migrant as Student
Adult Language Acquisition
ESL Teaching Methods
Laws and Principles of Adult Learning
Tips for New ESL Teachers
Suggestions for Instruction |
SURVIVAL ENGLISH |
Introduction
to Survival English
Banking
Clothing
Directions
Emergency
Employment
First
Essential Phrases, Courtesies
Food |
TEACHING TECHNIQUES |
Natural Approach
Total Physical Response
Dialogues and Conversations
Language Experience Approach
Shared Reading
Vocabulary/Key Words
Whole
Language in TESOL (TESOL stands for Teaching English to Spe
akers of Other Languages) by Pat Rigg, in TESOL QUARTERLY, Vol.
25, No. 3, Autumn 1991
Talking
Adult ESL Students into Writing: Building an Oral Fluency to
Promote Literacy by Linda Blanton, August, 1990
Using
Newspapers in the ESL Classroom by Carolyn Ebel Chandler,
July, 1990 |
CULTURES |
Mexican
American and Haitian |
DROP OUTS:
Ways to Retrieve and Help Them |
"Migrant
Students Who Leave School Early: Strategies for Retrieval"
by Anne Salerno , BOCES Geneseo
Migrant Center, May, 1991
Future
Directions: Recommendations and Implications [for Migrant
Secondary Programs] Migrant Education Secondary Assistance (MESA) |
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ADDITIONAL READINGS |
"English
Literacy Development: Approaches and Strategies that Work with
Limited English Proficient Children and Adults" by Carmen
Simich-Dudgeon, Summer, 1989
"The
Freirean Approach to Adult Literacy Education" by David
Spener, April 1990, revised 1992 |
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