Shelley Hale Lee, an ESL teacher trainer specializing in literacy approaches for ESL emergent readers, discussed teaching literacy to pre-literate adult ESL students. She emphasized the importance of phonics instruction, even for adults, and shared her structured approach...
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Allowing students to talk about their culture in the classroom is a great opportunity to for them to share a part of themselves with other students and their teachers. It also helps students recognize and respect differences and learn about their host culture. This great activity by Ann Flood in her book English Teacher Training
Activity Name: Categories Areas of Practice: ListeningSource: Five-Minute Activities: A Resource Book of Short Activities, by Penny Ur and Andrew WrightSetup: Prepare a list of words that students have already learned that can be broken into two categories (e.g., food/drink;big/small; months/seasons)Procedure: Write the title of each category on the board, separated by a vertical line, to make two columns.
A fun and active game to help your students practice vocabulary. This is a great way to practice vocabulary and can be used with words or pictures (or both!) on the cards. Flyswatter Game Areas of Practice: Vocabulary Source: MNA ESL Training Setup: Write 9 vocabulary words on a posterboard or whiteboard (tic-tac-toe style). Have 2 (clean)
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A fun activity to help your students practice vocabulary by hearing, speaking and reading the vocabulary words. This is a great way to practice vocabulary and can be used with words or pictures (or both!) on the cards. Areas of Practice: lists of vocabulary (alphabet, months, days, etc.); reading; speaking; listeningSetup: You’ll need to create cards for
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