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Preparing And Adapting Reading Materials For Esl Adults, Kathryn L. Riley
Preparing And Adapting Reading Materials For Esl Adults, Kathryn L. Riley
MA TESOL Collection
The adult ESL student who is illiterate or functionally illiterate in his native language has particular difficulty when learning to read English. This paper is a step by step description of a materials writing project undertaken at Bristol Community College, Fall River, Massachusetts; the goal of the project was to develop reading materials for adult Portuguese ESL students, many of whom were illiterate. Included in the paper are the general guidelines followed, specific steps taken to meet the requirements of each guideline, and a discussion of each level of materials developed. Examples of all four levels are included. Particular emphasis …
Adult Illiteracy And Literacy Volunteers: A Report Of The Efforts Of One Organization To Alleviate The Problem Of Adult Illiteracy In The United States, Marilyn Mcgillen
Adult Illiteracy And Literacy Volunteers: A Report Of The Efforts Of One Organization To Alleviate The Problem Of Adult Illiteracy In The United States, Marilyn Mcgillen
MA TESOL Collection
Adult illiteracy in the United States is a grave national problem. One organization attempting to solve this problem is Literacy Volunteers of America, Inc., a private, non-profit organization with affiliates in nineteen states. A tutorial approach to instruction through the use of volunteers trained in teaching basic reading to adults on a one-to-one basis is the method employed in this effort. Volunteers are trained in an 18-hour workshop highlighting four basic techniques and their effective utilization: experience story, sight words, phonics, and phonics-in-pattern. In-services, follow-up sessions, and consultations with volunteer reading specialists are available to tutors. A tutor training manual …
Learning To Trust And Trusting To Learn: A Discussion Of The Attitudes Of The Teacher And Student In The Counseling-Learning/Community Language Learning Model, Lois Rosen
MA TESOL Collection
The author explores the relationship between learning and trusting in four different contexts. In all four contexts the principles of Counseling-Learning and Community Language Learning are seen at work. In the first part of the paper the philosophy of Counseling- Learning is set forth. In the next part, a workshop in Counseling-Learning and Community Lanuage Learning is described. In this section, the five stages of language learning as advanced by father Curran are described, and an informal paper by Earl Stevick on "Two Ways of Teaching" is appended. In the next part, the author's use of CLL in ESL classes …
Ua3/4/1 President's Correspondence/Subject File - Continuing Education, Wku President's Office
Ua3/4/1 President's Correspondence/Subject File - Continuing Education, Wku President's Office
WKU Archives Records
Memoranda dated January 12 through January 20, 1976 regarding Continuing Education housed in Dero Downing's presidential files. Correspondents include: Raymond Cravens, W.E. Distler and Adron Doran.
Includes titled memos:
Constitution, 1/7/1976, with Consitution of the Continuing Education Council of Kentucky State Colleges and Universities attached.
Continuing Education Council Constitution, 1/20/1976
Marguerite Tolbert Papers - Accession 184, Marguerite Tolbert
Marguerite Tolbert Papers - Accession 184, Marguerite Tolbert
Manuscript Collection
Marguerite Tolbert was a Winthrop alumna (Class of 1914), club woman, educator, Winthrop Board of Trustee member, and administrator with the Opportunity School in Columbia, South Carolina. The Marguerite Tolbert Papers consist of biographical data, newspaper and magazine articles, photographs, a copy of her thesis titled, A Survey of Negro Elementary Schools of Oconee County (1940), a scrapbook, and other papers, mainly relating to her career as an educator and to her student days at Winthrop (1911-1914).