Return-Path: <nifl-esl@literacy.nifl.gov> Received: from literacy (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by literacy.nifl.gov (8.10.2/8.10.2) with SMTP id h2BGLeH28261; Tue, 11 Mar 2003 11:21:40 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2003 11:21:40 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <F50VI94sBIAfyIHCWt200027d60@hotmail.com> Errors-To: listowner@literacy.nifl.gov Reply-To: nifl-esl@literacy.nifl.gov Originator: nifl-esl@literacy.nifl.gov Sender: nifl-esl@literacy.nifl.gov Precedence: bulk From: "Tom Zurinskas" <truespel@hotmail.com> To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-esl@literacy.nifl.gov> Subject: [NIFL-ESL:8798] Re: NIFL-ESL digest 2124 X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Status: O Content-Length: 7631 Lines: 215 The background of an adult English learner is important. Perhaps these groupings work best (assuming no mental of physical impairment). The learner …. Speaks: 1 Another language and No English 2 Another language and Passable English 3. English as first language Writes: 1 No language 2 Another language non-roman letters 3 Another language with roman letters 4 A little English Environment: 1 No English speaking family members and none that can assist reading English 2 Some English speaking family members but none that can assist reading English 3 Some English speaking family members and some that can assist reading English 4 All English speaking family members and all can assist reading English The adult learners could be categories and handled appropriately. A 111 learner would be handled completely differently than a 346 learner. Tom Zurinskas >From: nifl-esl@nifl.gov >Reply-To: nifl-esl@nifl.gov >To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-esl@literacy.nifl.gov> >Subject: [NIFL-ESL:8797] NIFL-ESL digest 2124 >Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2003 08:42:05 -0500 (EST) > > NIFL-ESL Digest 2124 > >Topics covered in this issue include: > > 1) Re: ESL jobs > by "Susan Ryan" <susanefl@hotmail.com> > 2) Change Agent query > by "Andy Nash" <andy_nash@jsi.com> > 3) New from NCLE: Reading and Adult English Language Learners > by "Miriam Burt" <miriam@cal.org> > 4) Re: ESL jobs > by Ujwala Samant <usamant@comcast.net> > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- > >Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2003 09:37:13 -0500 >From: "Susan Ryan" <susanefl@hotmail.com> >To: nifl-esl@nifl.gov >Subject: Re: ESL jobs >Message-ID: <F1372DreBBsQwY6YHki00008893@hotmail.com> > >Ujwala- CELTA stands for Certificate in Language Teaching to Adults. >Certified by Cambridge University, it is the most worldwide recognized >certificate for teaching English as a Foreign Language abroad. They give >concentrated summer training in various locations worldwide. I got mine in >Halifax, Nova Scotia at the language institute there affiliated with >Dalhousie University. They have their own methodology. I took it for the >teacher training as I have an undergraduate degree in English >but a Master's in Library Science, so I had never taught English and it >was a direct route for me to get qualifications. >More info. available on the web. >Susan > > > > > > > >From: Ujwala Samant <usamant@comcast.net> > >Reply-To: nifl-esl@nifl.gov > >To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-esl@literacy.nifl.gov> > >Subject: [NIFL-ESL:8792] Re: ESL jobs > >Date: Sat, 8 Mar 2003 07:34:12 -0500 (EST) > > > >Susan, > > > >What is a CELTA certificate? > >regards > >Ujwala Samant > > > > > > >_________________________________________________________________ >STOP MORE SPAM with the new MSN 8 and get 2 months FREE* >http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail > > >------------------------------ > >Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2003 12:20:53 -0500 >From: "Andy Nash" <andy_nash@jsi.com> >To: <nifl-esl@literacy.nifl.gov> >Subject: Change Agent query >Message-ID: <se6c8335.049@mail.jsi.com> > >Judie, >The February 1997 issue of The Change Agent is entitled "Health and >Literacy" (Issue #4). You can view or download a copy of the issue by >clicking the following link: >http://www.nelrc.org/changeagent/backIssues.htm >This particular issue cannot be ordered; it's sold out. > >Thanks, >Andy Nash >NELRC/World Education >anash@worlded.org > >------------------------------ > >Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2003 17:16:14 -0500 >From: "Miriam Burt" <miriam@cal.org> >To: <nifl-esl@nifl.gov>, <nifl-workplace@nifl.gov> >Subject: New from NCLE: Reading and Adult English Language Learners >Message-ID: <B24038C0D3E160419E320030D92C22DE014D9F81@hobbes.cal.org> > > >When a teacher looks out at the students in her reading class, she probably >has many questions about how best to help her students decode and >comprehend the written word. For example, she may ask herself: How do >reading models (bottom-up, top-down, interactive, and learner's internal) >apply? What about the reading skills (phonological processing, vocabulary >recognition, syntactic processing and schema activating)? > >A teacher of adult English language learners has even more questions: > >Will learning to read be different for her students because they are adults >and know how to read already in their own language? What effect will this >have on their learning to read in English? And will the speed and ease at >which they learn to read in English be different for the students depending >on their proficiency in English? What about their first language literacy, >will that help or hinder them? Will Anya's reading skills in her native >Russian, which uses the Cyrillic alphabet, transfer to English? What about >Lilly? Will her ability to read Chinese logographs serve her well in >decoding English words? Surely Liana's reading ability in her native >Spanish, should help her with English, another Roman alphabet language, >shouldn't it? And what about Khalid? Will he have troubles reading left to >right because of his facility in reading Arabic, a right to left language? >Finally, what about Toua Vu, who never learned to read in Hmong, and is >just now finally able to attend cl! >ass. Will his lack of literacy skills mean different instruction is needed >for him? > >There's been a lot of talk about using scientifically based research to >teach reading. How much research is there on adult English language >learners learning to read? What additional factors need to be considered >for them? What else do we know? > >Two new pubs from NCLE address these questions. The first is a 4-page brief >on Reading and Adult English Language Learners: The Role of the First >Language. It's available from NCLE at address below, or online at >http://www.cal.org/ncle/digests/reading.htm > >The second is a 56-page report, Reading and Adult English Language >Learners: A Review of the Research. In addition to discussing the role of >the 1st language it talks about the role of other factors, and reports on >research done with adult English language learners specifically. It's also >free from NCLE. To order it, click on http://www.cal.org > > >Happy Reading! > >Miriam >Miriam Burt >Associate Director, National Center for ESL Literacy Education (NCLE) >Center for Applied Linguistics >4646 40th Street NW >Washington, DC 20015 >(202) 362-0700 (phone) >(202) 363-7204 (fax) >miriam@cal.org >***************************************** >Visit NCLE's Web site at www.cal.org/ncle >***************************************** >We're the only national center devoted exclusively to providing technical >assistance to those working with adults learning English as a second >language. > >------------------------------ > >Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2003 21:49:33 -0800 >From: Ujwala Samant <usamant@comcast.net> >To: nifl-esl@nifl.gov >Subject: Re: ESL jobs >Message-ID: <00a401c2e791$fdc02f20$95255544@ewndsr01.nj.comcast.net> > >Thanks Susan! >Ujwala > > > >------------------------------ > >End of NIFL-ESL Digest 2124 >*************************** Convert English to truespel (USA accent) by copy/pasting at http://www.foreignword.com/dictionary/truespel/transpel.htm Truespel is the world’s first phonetic spelling based on English, using no special symbols, showing syllabic stress, and proposed for all languages. 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