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Download full textJuanita Blackton; Alla McCaughey – English Teaching Forum, 2024
As the demand for opportunities to learn English grows throughout the world, parents and educators are looking for innovative ways to engage students in English-learning opportunities. Perhaps your school or municipality will seek to initiate an English Camp to be on trend with this growing need. Or perhaps, like many go-getter teachers, you wish…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Camps, Open Educational Resources
ERIC Clearinghouse on Languages and Linguistics, Washington, DC. – 1983
Guidelines for teaching English as a second language (ESL) are directed at teachers and teacher trainees. With an emphasis on teaching ESL quickly and efficiently to adults, the six chapters address teaching ESL to competencies, teaching ESL to nonliterate adults, vocational ESL, ESL instruction in the workplace, teaching ESL in the multilevel…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Basic Skills, English (Second Language), Literacy
Mikulecky, Beatrice S. – 1984
Recent advances in psycholinguistics, cognitive psychology, and information processing theory have produced several notions that have revolutionized previous conceptions of reading and what it means to understand. These notions support the idea that more emphasis should be placed on reading comprehension skills in the English as a second language…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, English (Second Language), Learning Theories, Linguistic Theory
Kauffman, Dorothy; And Others – 1995
This practical guide includes information from a 3-year study that set out to describe the range of practices in content-English-as-a-Second-Language (content-ESL) programs in the United States. The guide is based on the field reports of 20 school site visits; offers guidance for starting, implementing, and sustaining a content-ESL program; and…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, English (Second Language), Evaluation Methods, Instructional Materials
Genesee, Fred, Ed. – 1999
The report looks at programs and approaches for educating students from diverse linguistic and cultural backgrounds. It is intended as a guide for school and district decision-makers to help them identify instructional approaches and programs appropriate to their students' needs. Four program alternatives are discussed: newcomer programs;…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Decision Making, Developmental Programs, Diversity (Student)
Freireich, Susan – 1984
This handbook is intended for English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) providers who train volunteers as ESL teachers and use them in their own or other programs. The handbook offers both an overview of the process of developing a volunteer program and some concrete suggestions for each step. The model from which it is drawn is that used at the…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Job Placement, Language Teachers, Literacy Education
Carrillo, Ida S.; Carrillo, Federico M. – 1984
A guide to designing programs in English language arts for limited English proficient (LEP) students is intended for school districts to use in developing their own program manuals based on locally relevant needs. An introductory section gives background for LEP program development, and subsequent sections outline (1) identification procedures for…
Descriptors: Bilingual Students, Class Activities, Classroom Techniques, English (Second Language)
Fragiadakis, Helen; Licwinko, Amy – 1986
A program growing from the need for foreign college students to have more contact with native English-speakers matches a university extension program's students of English as a second language (ESL) with American students studying foreign languages at the university level. The ESL students are given the native students' telephone numbers and…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), College Students, Cultural Awareness, English (Second Language)
Baker, Keith – 1999
The design of California's Structured English Immersion (SEI) program for limited-English-speaking students, which replaced its bilingual education program by state mandate, is described and suggestions for implementation are offered. SEI has several variations, each characterized by (1) extensive use of English and (2) use of…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Curriculum Design, Elementary Secondary Education, English (Second Language)
McGroarty, Mary – 1984
Two cross-cultural workshops are outlined and discussed, one designed for graduate students in a training program for teachers of English as a second language and one for public school teachers and administrators. Activities used in each workshop and the rationale for their selection are described in detail. Each workshop included a combination of…
Descriptors: Administrator Education, Cross Cultural Training, English (Second Language), Graduate Students
Donaldson, Judy P. – 1987
The Transcultural Education Model presents a unified working model for teaching limited English proficient, English-as-Second-Language (ESL), or English-as-Second-Language transcultural (ESLT) students to read, write, and speak English. The model is designed for students and teachers in elementary, secondary, and adult schools. The model is…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Bilingual Education Programs, Elementary Secondary Education, English (Second Language)
Direct linkDrago-Severson, Eleanor – Teachers College Press, 2004
This book offers a new and promising way to support adults in Adult Basic Education (ABE) and English for speakers of other languages (ESOL) programs specifically, and learners in adult education, in general. Applying renowned Harvard University psychologist Robert Kegan's constructive-development theory, Drago-Severson depicts an in-depth…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Program Design, Literacy, Work Environment
Sinai, Raquel – 1986
This manual was developed for use by the personnel of the New Jersey state department of education to provide technical assistance to local, state, and federal bilingual education and English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) projects in the state. It contains seven training modules, each consisting of a reproducible workshop packet with procedures for…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education Programs, Classroom Environment, Curriculum Development, Educational Needs
Wrigley, Heide Spruck – 1988
A guide to program design and instruction for immigrants seeking permanent residency in the United States is based on the educational requirements of the 1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act. It provides information for developing an amnesty preparation program to meet the requirements for proficiency and/or course attendance. Those…
Descriptors: Adults, Citizen Participation, Curriculum Development, English (Second Language)
Pennsylvania State Dept. of Education, Harrisburg. – 1986
Fourth in a series of state publications providing suggestions to school districts for serving limited-English-proficient (LEP) students, the handbook on teacher training outlines the characteristics necessary for mainstream, English as a second language (ESL), or bilingual program teachers of LEP students, in-service and preservice training…
Descriptors: Administrator Guides, Bilingual Education, Elementary Secondary Education, English (Second Language)
