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 h6E2faC12154; Sun, 13 Jul 2003 22:41:36 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sun, 13 Jul 2003 22:41:36 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <006301c349b1$1a902840$2b4cdc42@f0e9v3> 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: "Ken Taber" <kentaber@inetgenesis.com> To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-esl@literacy.nifl.gov> Subject: [NIFL-ESL:9163] Re: Esl multilevel class X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2720.3000 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; Status: O Content-Length: 2901 Lines: 65 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 > >
This archive was generated by hypermail 2b30 : Thu Mar 11 2004 - 12:16:12 EST