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Teaching adults : an ESL resource book. Cover Image Book Book

Teaching adults : an ESL resource book.

New Readers Press. (Added Author).

Summary:

This guide is designed to help ESL teachers and tutors assess learners' needs, integrate reading, writing, listening, and speaking into teaching activities, and plan lessons. Includes information on learning styles and multiple intelligences, listening and speaking, conversation and dialogue, language experience stories, phonics and grammar, fluent oral reading, communication activities and reproducible ready-to-use activities.

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  • ISBN: 9781564203441
  • Physical Description: 178 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm
  • Publisher: Syracuse, New York : New Readers Press, [2013]

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Formatted Contents Note:
Introduction -- Language learning -- Communicating across cultures -- Getting to know students -- Listening and speaking -- Reading and writing -- Integrated communication activities -- Pulling it all together: lesson planning.

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Subject: English language > Study and teaching > Foreign speakers.
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1 Introduction
7(6)
English as a Second Language: The Challenge of Change
7(3)
This Book
10(1)
Pro Literacy
11(2)
2 Language Learning
13(10)
The Four Basic Language Skills
13(1)
The Functions of Language
14(1)
Second Language Acquisition
15(6)
Becoming a Better Language Teacher
21(2)
3 Communicating Across Cultures
23(7)
Language Learning and Culture Learning
24(1)
Individual Responses to Universal Situations
25(3)
Being an Effective Culture Guide
28(2)
4 Getting to Know Students
30(10)
Needs Assessment
30(5)
Activity 1 Setting Goals
32(2)
Activity 2 The Language Wheel
34(1)
Skills Assessment
35(3)
Learning Styles and Multiple Intelligences
38(2)
5 Listening and Speaking
40(49)
Guidelines for Teaching Oral Skills
40(2)
Introducing New Vocabulary
42(1)
Total Physical Response (TPR)
43(3)
Activity 3 Basic Steps for TPR
44(2)
Activity 4 Foam Balls
46(1)
Vocabulary Drills
46(2)
Activity 5 Vocabulary Drill to Teach Direction Words
47(1)
Reinforcing Vocabulary
48(4)
Activity 6 Eating Utensils
49(2)
Activity 7 Focused Listening/Listening to a Story
51(1)
Activity 8 Dictation for Listening Skills
52(1)
Idioms
52(2)
Activity 9 Writing a Conversation to Teach Idioms
53(1)
Grammar
54(4)
Activity 10 Substitution Drills
56(1)
Activity 11 If I Won the Lottery
57(1)
Conversation
58(15)
Activity 12 Dialogues---Basic Steps
59(3)
Activity 13 Role Plays
62(1)
Activity 14 Using Picture Stories for Health Literacy
63(3)
Activity 15 Conversation Prompts
66(4)
Activity 16 Newspapers as a Cultural Key
70(1)
Activity 17 Role Play---Finding an Apartment
71(2)
Conversation Activities for Small Groups and Classes
73(10)
Activity 18 Question Strips
73(2)
Activity 19 Find Someone Who...
75(2)
Activity 20 Who Am I?
77(1)
Activity 21 "Liars"
78(1)
Activity 22 What's Missing?
79(2)
Activity 23 Meeting and Greeting---Conversation Practice
81(2)
The Sounds of English
83(1)
Teaching Individual Sounds
84(5)
Activity 24 Minimal Pairs
86(3)
6 Reading and Writing
89(54)
Literacy Skills---Where Do Your Students Fit?
89(1)
Principles of Teaching Reading and Writing
90(3)
Language Experience Approach
93(4)
Activity 25 Creating a Language Experience Story
94(2)
Activity 26 Building Skills with LEA Stories
96(1)
Pre-Reading Activities
97(2)
Activity 27 Pre-Reading Activity---Discussion
98(1)
Recognizing Words
99(7)
Activity 28 Sight Words
100(1)
Activity 29 Phonics---Teaching Consonant Sounds
101(1)
Activity 30 Word Patterns
102(2)
Activity 31 Context---Cloze Procedure
104(1)
Activity 32 Word Parts---Compound Words
105(1)
Developing Fluent Oral Reading
106(6)
Activity 33 Reading Aloud to Students
106(1)
Activity 34 Duet Reading
107(2)
Activity 35 Echo Reading
109(1)
Activity 36 Using the SQ3R Reading Approach
109(3)
Getting Started with Writing
112(5)
Activity 37 Letter Formation---Five Steps to Printing
113(4)
Guided Writing
117(13)
Activity 38 Sentence Completion with Pictures
118(1)
Activity 39 Using Pictures in One-to-One Tutoring
119(2)
Activity 40 Using Pictures with Small Groups
121(3)
Activity 41 Getting and Giving Health Information
124(1)
Activity 42 Using Craigslist to Sell Goods and Services
124(4)
Activity 43 Li's Morning Routine
128(2)
Free Writing
130(13)
Activity 44 Semantic Webs
130(2)
Activity 45 Five-Minute Warm-Up
132(1)
Activity 46 "I Like to Eat Chocolate"
132(2)
Activity 47 Writing with Partners
134(3)
Activity 48 Adding Sensory Details to Autobiographical Writing
137(4)
Activity 49 Dialogue Journals
141(2)
7 Integrated Communication Activities
143(20)
Information Grids
143(9)
Activity 50 Basic Steps
144(5)
Activity 51 Information Grids to Meet Real-Life Needs
149(1)
Activity 52 Information Grids to Review and Reinforce Specific Grammatical Structures or Vocabulary
150(1)
Activity 53 Information Grids in One-to-One Tutoring
151(1)
Information Gap
152(6)
Activity 54 Supermarket Ad
153(2)
Activity 55 Venn Diagram
155(3)
Other Integrated Communication Activities
158(4)
Activity 56 "I'm a Banana. What Are You?"
158(1)
Activity 57 Teaching Basic Computer Use
159(3)
Suggestions for Additional Activities
162(1)
8 Pulling It All Together Lesson Planning
163(9)
Two Ingredients of a Lesson Plan
163(1)
Steps in Lesson Planning
164(5)
Step 1 Ask Who?
164(2)
Step 2 Ask What?
166(1)
Step 3 Ask How?
166(1)
Step 4 Write the Lesson Plan
167(2)
Sample of Completed Lesson Plan Activity Sheet
169(2)
Lesson Plan Activity Sheet
171(1)
Appendix A The Sounds of English 172(6)
Appendix B Considering Assessment 178

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