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The University of San Francisco

2016

Teacher Education and Professional Development

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Learning Through Reading: A Handbook Of Literature-Based Lessons For Esl, Lota I. Rygiel May 2016

Learning Through Reading: A Handbook Of Literature-Based Lessons For Esl, Lota I. Rygiel

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Learning through Reading: A Handbook of Literature-based Lessons for ESL A Field Project written by Lota Rygiel in the spring of 2016. This project is a handbook of lessons for adult ESL students at intermediate or advanced proficiency levels of English as a Second Language. The handbook offers the use of authentic materials in the form of short stories and poems in English. The authentic materials serve as a challenge to students (Krashen's "i + 1" level): with careful guidance of the instructor they will be interesting and meaningful to students. The use of various literary genres corresponds to the …