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Bellos, Susan – English Teachers' Journal (Israel), 1992
The "hot potato technique" (HPT) is described as an effective way to engage high school English-language students in class discussions. HPT involves using newspapers and magazines to stimulate participation. (LB)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Controversial Issues (Course Content), Discussion (Teaching Technique), English (Second Language)
Download full textBalliro, Lenore – 1987
Texts for three units of a workplace English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) literacy program are included. The first unit addresses language skills for social and personal identification, including lessons on introductions, social language, family, filling out forms, schedules and timelines, and expressing feelings. The second unit focuses on aspects…
Descriptors: Civil Liberties, Course Content, Daily Living Skills, English (Second Language)
Gornowich, Barbara Bernstein; Nelson, Anthony – 1989
The materials comprise the curriculum for an introductory course in academic writing for limited English proficient adult or college students. The guide is intended for the upper end of a survival language skills course or the lowest end of an academic developmental writing sequence. The curriculum instructs students on academic life and assists…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Classroom Techniques, Course Content, English for Academic Purposes
Napa Valley Unified School District, Napa, CA. – 1993
The materials include a handbook for development of worksite, job-specific literacy programs and a sample curriculum for vineyard workers in California. The handbook describes the Literacy Line! project, a mobile unit to carry English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) and job-specific literacy instruction to employees at wineries and vineyards in the…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Literacy, Agricultural Laborers, Course Content
Watson, Elizabeth A. – 1981
This packet contains both teacher's guides and learners' materials for a course on English as a Second Language (ESL) for parents of schoolaged children. Developed for use in the DuPage High School District (Villa Park, Illinois), the materials can be used with adaptations by other continuing education programs. The packet contains 14 lessons. For…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Communication Skills, Communicative Competence (Languages)
Nishio, Yvonne Wong – 1991
The student workbook and teacher manual for an adult English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) literacy course are presented. It assumes that students have some native language literacy skills but may have had little or no prior schooling. The student book has 10 units, topically organized: alphabet; numbers; time; the calendar; money; school; the…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Alphabets, Audiovisual Aids, Communication Skills
Franck, Carl R.; And Others – 1985
Correlated to the trainer's manual for the same course, this trainee's manual has been designed for Peace Corps trainees coming to Thailand without stateside agricultural training. Although it was developed for the training of Test of English as a Foreign Language (TEFL)/Crossovers, the majority of sessions are appropriate for other Peace Corps…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Agricultural Education, Agricultural Occupations, Agricultural Production
