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Miekley, Joshua P. – CATESOL Journal, 2014
Critical-thinking skills help to prepare adult education students for a successful transition to college degree programs and for job advancement. Yet fostering critical thinking poses a challenge to ESL instructors. Brookfield (2012) provides a way forward for adult educators when he explains that the crux of critical thinking is to discover one's…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Adult Students, Community Colleges, Writing Instruction
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Santana-Williamson, Eliana – CATESOL Journal, 2013
This article discusses how the ESL program at an ethnically/linguistically diverse community college (between San Diego and the Mexican border) moved from a general, grammar-based ESL curriculum to a content-based instruction (CBI) curriculum. The move was designed to better prepare 1st- and 2nd-generation immigrant students for freshman…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Task Analysis
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Martin, Florence – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2011
This paper highlights the instructional design process followed by the Maricopa Community College faculty in the creation of instructional modules in Digital Visual Literacy. The paper categorizes 10 tasks that an instructional designer, a teacher, or a trainer performs during the design phase of the instructional design process. The importance of…
Descriptors: Instructional Design, Instructional Materials, Visual Literacy, College Faculty