Good morning,

I am Andrea Greer and I teach ESL to a multi-level class of adults at College of the Mainland.

I have used the Seven Habits of Successful Readers received from Heide at the Reading Institute to help my students focus on their reading skills.

We produced a class video on "Getting the Job"  where the students used the skills learned about job searching using the newspaper, completing the job application, cold calling at the job site to inquire about a job opening, and how to determine and express their job skills and work experience to prepare for their role in the video.

We read about various workplace situations.  Used the Oxford Picture Dictionary, Longman's Study Dictionary to prepare their script for the video.  In many instances, the intermediate and advanced learners used their prior knowledge to adlib in the interview process.  These learners were often the interviewer while the lower level students were the interviewees.  

This technology allowed the students to see themselves interact in conversation with their classmates.  While some were shy initially, their engagement in the activity proved to be fun and a rewarding learning experience.  They also wrote about the experience and shared with the class.

Andrea Greer
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Denise Sumlin 
  To: englishlanguage at nifl.gov 
  Sent: Wednesday, May 14, 2008 7:59 AM
  Subject: [EnglishLanguage 2444] Re: Technology and Resources


  I have found the following resources to be very helpful for my beginning ESL students as well as my intermediate students.  I used them in class as well as have the students check them out for their local library to review and write the dialogs.  

  One of the ways we use the written dialog is by have them do rehearsal time with other students.  This has been rewarding to the students because it gives immediate feed back and they can correct their pronunciation based upon the video tape.

    1.. Learning English as a Second Language, pronouns, adjectives and the present tense 
    2.. ESL easy English, volumes 1-4: cover the following topics 
      a.. Meeting and Greeting 
      b.. Understanding Basic Conversation 
      c.. Using Numbers and Money 
      d.. Asking and Giving Directions, address and phone numbers
  I also used several YouTube clippings for my more intermediate students and they loved it.  It is a challenge to me to continue to bring various technology based activities into the classroom.  With my session come to an end soon, my plans are to incorporate more in my next sessions.

  Denise Johnson



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