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Ingram, Beverly; King, Carol – 1988
This composition textbook/workbook for beginning and low-intermediate English as a Second Language/English as a Foreign Language (ESL/EFL) students contains topics that are developed to help move students from structured "writing" activities to free "composing" activities. The activities are intended to help students become…
Descriptors: Adult Education, English (Second Language), Higher Education, Introductory Courses
Fraser, Jane, Ed. – 1998
Participants in an adult education grade 11 English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) writing class, all immigrants to Canada with varying cultural backgrounds, wrote journal entries in response to the theme "growing up different." The project involved individual writing, word processing, peer editing, computer graphics, audiotape recording of…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Class Activities, Diversity (Student), Editing
Download full textMortrude, Judy – 1999
This document consists of online instructional materials designed for adult education use. It is a seven lesson course designed to help the student develop better spelling and grammar skills, write with greater purpose and focus, and exercise better word choice through an enriched vocabulary. Detailed lessons, complete with worksheets and…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Uses in Education, Educational Resources
Spiegel, Marina; Sunderland, Helen – 1999
This book sets out to adapt and use some of the practical approaches of genre theory to the teaching of writing to English as a Second or Other Language (ESOL) and Basic Skills students in Britain. The book has 9 units exploring different types of text or genres, descriptions of people, descriptions of places, personal narratives, folk stories,…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Check Lists, Class Activities, Classroom Techniques
de Silva, Maria Antonieta Donis – MEXTESOL Journal, 1983
Reading, writing, listening, and speaking activities and exercises that use folders of interesting material that students can use alone or in small groups are described. The folders contain pictures or other material of interest to the students, instructions in English and Spanish, and answers. The folders are color-coded by type of activity.…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Class Activities, Classroom Techniques, Elementary Secondary Education
Renner, Christopher – Perspectives, a Journal of TESOL-Italy, 1990
A teacher of English as a Foreign Language (EFL) to adults in a non-English-speaking country describes use of classroom writing conferences to improve student language use and introduce writing into the communicative syllabus. The approach is based on a conference format and focuses on self-directed inquiry. Students are provided with monolingual…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Audience Awareness, Classroom Communication, Classroom Techniques
Peer reviewedPula, Judith J., Ed. – Maryland English Journal, 1996
The two issues of this journal contain articles about aspects of English teaching and samples of student work. The Fall 1995 issue contains: "'I Want More Books Like It': Implementing a Reading Workshop in an Urban Classroom with At-Risk Students" (Rebecca Joseph); "Service Learning Prompt for the Maryland Writing Test" (Kathy…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Adult Education, Bilingualism, Cultural Pluralism
PDF pending restorationVirginia Adult Educators Research Network, Dayton. – 1999
The collection of articles addresses current issues in adult and adult basic education in Virginia communities. Titles include: "Goal-Setting in the New River Valley: Teachers' Perceptions and Strategies" (Sue Barton); "What Happens When ESL Students Experience Authentic Work Situations?" (Pat Bowyer); "Orientation to…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Adult Basic Education, Adult Education, Childrens Literature
