Return-Path: <nifl-fobasics@literacy.nifl.gov> Received: from literacy (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by literacy.nifl.gov (8.9.3/8.9.0.Beta5/980425bjb) with SMTP id PAA07207; Wed, 2 Feb 2000 15:05:29 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2000 15:05:29 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <s89846e7.013@jsi.com> Errors-To: listowner@literacy.nifl.gov Reply-To: nifl-fobasics@literacy.nifl.gov Originator: nifl-fobasics@literacy.nifl.gov Sender: nifl-fobasics@literacy.nifl.gov Precedence: bulk From: "Barbara Garner" <Barbara_Garner@jsi.com> To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-fobasics@literacy.nifl.gov> Subject: [NIFL-FOBASICS:215] Focus on Basics on Writing Instruction X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas X-Mailer: Novell GroupWise 5.2 Status: O Content-Length: 1864 Lines: 54 The newest issue of "Focus on Basics" is available on NCSALL's web site, http://gseweb.harvard.edu/~ncsall. Click on the square "Newest issue of Focus on Basics" to go right to the issue. The topic is writing instruction. Elsa Auerbach writes about five approaches to teaching ESOL writing and the different messages each approach sends to learners. Marilyn Gillespie looks at research on writing instruction, from the evolution of the process writing model, through research on spelling, and finally to studies of the social role of writing. Bui Thi Nguyet Thanh, an ESOL teacher and former ESOL student, crafts her ESOL writing classes to meet her new immigrant students' psychosocial as well as academic needs. ABE teacher Rebecca Garland writes about discovering the social role journal writing can play in a classroom. Chhoeup Chhoeun describes her experiences writing in a journal. Mary Russell shares her research on the mismatch between learners' interest in the mechanics of writing and teachers' focus on writing for communication and self expression, and what that means for instruction. A new column, Focus on Teaching, includes specific activities to use in the ESOL classroom with very beginning writers. Focus on Research looks at Victoria Purcell-Gates' on-going research study on the changes that occur in literacy practices in the home as a result of participation in a literacy class. ****************************** Barbara Garner phone (617) 482-9485 World Education fax (617) 482-0617 44 Farnsworth Street e-mail bgarner@worlded.org Boston, MA 02210-1211 ****************************** Barbara Garner phone (617) 482-9485 World Education fax (617) 482-0617 44 Farnsworth Street e-mail bgarner@worlded.org Boston, MA 02210-1211
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