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[EnglishLanguage 4108] Themes and topics from TESOL 2009/Denver
Miriam Burt
mburt at cal.orgFri Apr 3 17:11:55 EDT 2009
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Hello, all.
I attended the annual Teachers of English for Speakers of
Other Languages (TESOL) Convention in Denver last week (March 24- 28)
and found the following to be themes related to working with adult
English language learners :
Promoting transitions from ABE
to ESL, workplace preparation, and college and university (including
creating partnerships such as co-teaching with content teachers in
community colleges)
Creating career pathways, and
developing partnerships with other service providers to help English
language learners enter and move through career pathways
Health care issues for English
language learners - both as consumers and as a possible career
Developing reading and writing
ability and assessing writing development; the need for reading and
writing assessments that can be used with adult learners at higher
levels than are available now
Improving English language
learners' pronunciation skills
Use of learner stories to
facilitate learners' speaking and writing development
Issues around culture and
language
EL/Civics and immigration
updates
Building capacity for
providing effective instruction in communities with emerging English
language populations
Before it gets too much later, I would like to invite
folks who attended the conference to share on this list any information
they found particularly interesting, talk about any themes they felt
were there, or give information about worthwhile presentations they
attended (or facilitated!) What did I leave out? What were some of your
impressions of the state of the field of instruction for adult English
language learners? What was the buzz? What's hot? What's not?
Looking forward to hearing from you.
Thanks.
Miriam
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Miriam Burt
Center for Applied Linguistics
4646 40th Street NW
Washington, DC 20016
(202) 362-0700, ext. 556 (phone)
(202) 363-7204 (fax)
mburt at cal.org <mailto:mburt at cal.org> (email)
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