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 h6EE9f703573; Mon, 14 Jul 2003 10:09:41 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2003 10:09:41 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <Law9-F445zt60OrnASr0000d7f2@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: "Susan Ryan" <susanefl@hotmail.com> To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-esl@literacy.nifl.gov> Subject: [NIFL-ESL:9170] Re: Esl multilevel class X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Status: O Content-Length: 3600 Lines: 89 Anna, Didn't you mean the students were chosen for the class by translating a few sentences not in the class to learn a few sentences?? Ken's reply sounded like the later. Clarify, please. Susan >From: "Ken Taber" <kentaber@inetgenesis.com> >Reply-To: nifl-esl@nifl.gov >To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-esl@literacy.nifl.gov> >Subject: [NIFL-ESL:9163] Re: Esl multilevel class >Date: Sun, 13 Jul 2003 22:39:54 -0400 (EDT) > >Anna: > >Wow! There are no easy answers here without knowing more about your >students >and I will have to know more about your students to really give you any >real >help. The first thing I would do is to take the 6 students who are language >graduates and pair them with the 6 who cannot answer the question, "What is >your name?" Tell me more about your students and the languages they speak >and their english language proficiency. I always want to know as much about >my students as possible before I plan how best to help each student. Do all >these students come form Italy and speak Italian or are they from around >the >world and speak several different languages? > >Then I would translate the few sentences for the course into each of >different native languages and English and write each sentence on sentence >strips. Have them write and draw in a journal the sentences that the course >demands they learn. Next, I would think of real world situations where >students would need to use these sentences and role-play different >scenarios >in English. See if you can get a bingual dictionary for each student. Break >up the course into the sentences that you want them to learn each week and >review each week their journal of what they have previously learned. > >Do you have use of any computers, tape recorders, language masters? Do you >know of any vocabulary games to play with the students? > > I would start each class by saying, My name is Anna Capalbo? What is your >name? Then that student would answer and go to the next student and say My >name is Ken Taber. What is your name? This simple What Is Your Name Game >should help all your students translate the first sentence. What are the >other sentences that the students need to learn? > >There is a book I do recommend it is called, "The More-Than-Just-Surviving >Handbook-ESL for Every Classroom Teacher-2nd Edition" by Barbara Law and >Mary Eckes. (ISBN 1-894110-53-6) Peguis Publishers, Winnipeg, Canada 2000 >books@peguis.com > >Hope this helps, >Ken Taber >kentaber@inetgenesis.com > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Anna Capalbo" <acapalbo@libero.it> >To: "Multiple recipients of list" <nifl-esl@literacy.nifl.gov> >Sent: Sunday, July 13, 2003 12:34 PM >Subject: [NIFL-ESL:9160] Esl multilevel class > > > > Hello, > > > > I have a serious problem. I'm teaching ESL in a post-graduate course for > > human resource management. Others (not English teachers) selected the > > students for the course (asking them only to translate a few sentences). >At > > the moment I have 22 students of which 6 cannot answer the question >"What >is > > your name" and another 6 are language graduates! Do you have any >suggestions > > on how to handle the situation? It is not possible to separate them, nor >to > > exonerate the language graduates from the course. I need help, please! >Any > > suggestions on books would be precious. (I'm writing from Italy) Thank >you > > in advance. > > Anna Capalbo > > > > > _________________________________________________________________ STOP MORE SPAM with the new MSN 8 and get 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail
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