Hi Mikal
 
Great - please have a browse. 
 
In order to sample the book either register or click on the 'sample' units on the welcome page. 
 
The 'sample' units will only give you access to one or two pages which will appear in bold when you slide over the content points with your mouse. If you register you can access the entire book.
 
Hope this helps 
 
Tatia
 


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De: Steinbacher Mikal <Mikal.Steinbacher at lwtc.edu>
Objet: [EnglishLanguage 4020] Re: Re : Online EAP, PLUS integrating Adult ESOL students
À: "The Adult English Language Learners Discussion List" <englishlanguage at nifl.gov>
Date: Mercredi 11 Mars 2009, 0h59


I'd love to  take a look, but have't been able to open the samples.  Beta????

Mikal Steinbacher
Instructor, ABE/ESL/English
Lake Washington Technical College

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Subject: [EnglishLanguage 4019] Re : Online EAP,PLUS integrating Adult ESOL students


Hello 

I have been working with academic English - pre-university level - at my college and have put together an online e-textbook. 

Running free trials at the moment so perhaps you can try it out with your learners and see how they feel about online learning ...

It is low-level - really an introduction to the basics.

www.8steps.co.uk <http://www.8steps.co.uk/> 


Best regards

Tatia


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    De: Pichard, Mercedes Dr. <MercedesRP at LeeSchools.Net>
    Objet: [EnglishLanguage 4018] Online EAP, PLUS integrating Adult ESOL students
    À: "The Adult English Language Learners Discussion List" <englishlanguage at nifl.gov>
    Date: Mardi 10 Mars 2009, 15h35
    
    

     

    I've had a minor brainstorm here in Lee County, Florida, and I was wondering if anyone on this list can share their experiences  (and the wrinkles they have already ironed out)  before I bite off more than I can chew.   

    

    In the EAP Department, I am developing more than one online course for the new local Edison State College (formerly a community college).  The online courses will be parallel to the face-to-face versions already offered to our adult students needing English for Academic Purposes support.   Online course-development is going well, and I am enjoying the process.   We hope to be able to offer one-two online EAP courses in the Fall 2009 semester, and add another one-two courses next Spring.  

    

    Coincidentally, I also do a lot of work for the Adult ESOL Education Department of my local public school district.  A few colleagues and I are the team of creators of teacher-trainings and other pre-service and in-service workshops and professional development opportunities.   I used to teach Adult ESOL for many, many years.    

    

    At that place in my brain where my various work-worlds cross over and overlap, it occurred to me that it would be awesome to be able to pilot a small program where a few adult students from the topmost level of Adult ESOL Ed  (the school district world, free ESOL classes)  were able to attend one or another of the online EAP course offerings at the college  (the college EAP world, the paying-tuition world).    

    

    If we figure out how to make this work for the institution involved, I can solve the issue of criteria for selection of adult student-participants.  "Criteria" is not going to be a problem.  

    

    What I would like to know:    Is there going to be any grant funding (or funding of any kind) for new initiatives and new approaches to moving students from free Adult ESOL to college work?   (We all know that college work then moves students towards the work-force with more skills).   Especially going from free adult ESOL into college EAP, and also especially going from a face-to-face classroom into an online environment.  

    

    I don't think that the new state college should be expected to foot the bill entirely for a pilot endeavor of this nature, incorporating extra students into an online class, to see if they are ready to handle the level and the academic work.   I cannot automatically assume that the college is going to play along and allow students to audit the new online course(s), either.  

    

    What else I would like to know:   Has anyone out there attempted this transition pathway or one like it?   Am I trying to make the students make too many kinds of transitions at one and the same time (face-to-face into online, and adult ESOL into college EAP)??    

    

    Thanks, all 

    

    Mercedes Pichard 

    

    

    

    Mercedes Pichard, Ed.D. 

    School District of Lee County, Florida 

    239-481-2233 ext 3119 

    

    

     


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