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Bartelo, Dennise M. – 1983
Adult students of English as a second language (ESL) need to learn how to express in writing what they know how to say. An introductory lesson plan is presented which has helped students put their words into writing. A unit on communicating personal information is developed from the first class meeting's introductions of name, address, occupation,…
Descriptors: Adults, Basic Skills, English (Second Language), Functional Literacy
Download full textGreenleaf, Connie; Gee, Mary Kay – 1997
The materials in this unit include a teacher manual and student book for an 18-day English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) unit in measurement and comparisons. The teacher manual contains a list of instructional objectives for the unit, daily lesson plans, vocabulary chart, metric conversion table, a series of class activities, signs for labeling…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Class Activities, Classroom Techniques, Comparative Analysis
Clark, Raymond C.; And Others – 1979
The teaching guide is designed to accompany a set of instructional materials in Mauritanian Arabic (Hassaniya) for Peace Corps volunteers. It provides information and techniques for language teaching in three volumes: (1) a literacy handbook--a volume of lessons on the Arabic alphabet and script; (2) a communication and culture handbook; and (3) a…
Descriptors: Arabic, Basic Skills, Class Activities, Classroom Techniques
Vaut, Ellen D. – 1982
This book deals with several aspects of teaching everyday survival skills to adult English as a second language (ESL) students. The basic orientation of the book is based on a determination of skills students need to cope in a community. This determination involves consideration of the skills the community requires, the skills the students lack,…
Descriptors: Adults, Basic Skills, Classroom Techniques, Communicative Competence (Languages)
Center for Applied Linguistics, Washington, DC. Language and Orientation Resource Center. – 1982
Teaching English as a second language (ESL) to competencies requires that the instructional focus be on functional competencies and life-coping skills while developing the spoken and/or written English structures necessary to perform these skills. A step-by-step approach to develop and implement a competency-based approach to ESL for adults is…
Descriptors: Adult Programs, Adult Students, Basic Skills, Communicative Competence (Languages)
Brod, Shirley – 1998
This lesson guide argues that the focus of the English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) classroom should include all of the following: learning English, acquiring workplace skills, and developing a cross-cultural awareness. The renewed emphasis on employment-related ESL has created a growing interest in the competencies of the SCANS (Secretary's…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Basic Skills, Class Activities, English (Second Language)
Literacy Volunteers of America--Connecticut, Hartford. – 1992
The set of instructional materials is designed as a training module for volunteer tutors in English as a Second Language (ESL) for adults. It presents the content of a workshop, about 2.5 hours long, with three main objectives: to (1) help tutors understand the distinction between basic skills and life skills in ESL; (2) develop skills in two…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Basic Skills, Classroom Techniques, Curriculum Design
Ditmars, Jane W. – 1993
This manual provides specific lesson plans for teaching life skills and literacy to adult beginning readers and English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) students. It includes four curricular sections: Focus on Language Arts, Focus on Life Skills and Literacy, Focus on Holidays and Observances and Focus on Survival Math. A total of 95 topics are…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Basic Skills, Cultural Enrichment
Zavez, Joan; And Others – 1996
This teaching guide contains nine lesson plans for teaching job-related English for speakers of other languages (ESOL) to employees at Barber Foods in Maine. The lessons cover the following topics: (1) rotation directions; (2) protective clothing (level 2 and level 2/3); (3) talking to supervisors; (4) accident prevention; (5) machinery…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Basic Skills, Course Content
Connecticut State Dept. of Education, Hartford. Div. of Vocational-Technical Schools. – 1982
This manual is designed to provide instructors with basic information concerning Connecticut's bilingual vocational training programs (BVTPs). Discussed in the first section are the goals of BVTPs, characteristics of typical BVTP participants, how and when two languages are used in the programs, and the four instructional areas of a BVTP (the…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Basic Skills, Behavioral Objectives, Bilingual Education
Burkhart, Jennifer; Sullivan, Mark – 1993
The BUILD Program (Businesses United to Increase Literacy Development) was conducted from June 1991 through December 1992 as a cooperative workplace literacy program joining Arapahoe Community College and four companies in Littleton, Colorado. This document consists of two modules for the mathematics (computation) classes of the program. The first…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Students, Basic Skills
Burkhart, Jennifer; Sullivan, Mark – 1993
The BUILD Program (Businesses United to Increase Literacy Development) was conducted from June 1991 through December 1992 as a cooperative workplace literacy program joining Arapahoe Community College and four companies in Littleton, Colorado. This document consists of two modules for the reading and language instruction classes of the program.…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Students, Basic Skills
Burkhart, Jennifer; Sullivan, Mark – 1993
The BUILD Program (Businesses United to Increase Literacy Development) was conducted from June 1991 through December 1992 as a cooperative workplace literacy program joining Arapahoe Community College and four companies in Littleton, Colorado. This document consists of two modules for the communication skills classes of the program. The first…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Students, Basic Skills
