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McCloskey, Mary Lou – ESL Magazine, 1998
Literature is important in teaching English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL), because it motivates students, provides language models, offers ways to think creatively, provides opportunities for interaction, and enhances reading development. Criteria for selecting literature include student interest, linguistic accessibility, quality language, cultural…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, English (Second Language), Literature, Reading
Holden, Elizabeth – ESL Magazine, 1999
Discusses multiple challenges faced by community-based English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) and adult-literacy programs, explaining how to integrate ESL instruction into existing literacy programs, respond to diverse student needs, create community partnerships to support and fund the ESL program, contribute back to the community, and build capacity…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Community Programs, Diversity (Student), English (Second Language)

Frankenberg-Garcia, Ana – ELT Journal, 1999
Argues that the best moment for responding to student writing is before any draft is completed. Analyzes ways in which this can be put into practice in the composition classroom and reports on how a group of undergraduate, intermediate-level Portuguese English-as-a-Second-Language writers reacted to this kind of pre-text feedback. (Author/SM)
Descriptors: Editing, Elementary Secondary Education, English (Second Language), Feedback

de Mejia, Anne-Marie – TESOL Journal, 1998
Alternating between languages in the construction of stories offers students creative opportunities for bilingual learning. Describes how a storyteller can code switch to tell stories to children who are becoming bilingual and presents an example from early-immersion classrooms in Colombia, discussing code switching and discourse control, and…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Bilingualism, Classroom Techniques, Code Switching (Language)