Our upcoming second edition of The ESL/ELL Teacher’s Survival Guide will have a chapter on teaching adult ELLs.
It’s written by Antoinette Perez, and two sites she specifically recommends for goal-setting exercises are:
I thought it would also be useful to bring together additional resources to support teachers of adult ELLs. Here are a few more, and please let me know what I’m missing:
Here’s a series of four guest posts on teaching adult ELLs.
Teacher Resources: Adult ELL Instruction is from Colorin Colorado.
Literacy Instruction for Adult English Language Learners (ESL/ELL students) is from Reading Horizons.
What Every Teacher of Adult ESL Students Needs to Know is from Busy Teacher.
Dear Larry,
Thank you so much for sharing useful resources for teaching adults the English Language. I found it useful because I myself am learning English and informally help adult students who wanted to pursue education in the U.S. You know there are many immigrants from Africa, Asia, and Latin America whose medium of communication is not English. So for this group, the English language is a primary barrier to continue education. It’s really frustrating at times not to be able to communicate with natives at least smoothly. Specifically, writing may not be easy for those immigrants whose language grammatical structure differs from English. So many adult immigrants who I know of refrained from continuing education by simply being scared of the language issue.
I believe what you do right now should be encouraged. According to labor statistics nearly half of the US population was born outside the country. Out of this figure, the significant majority of immigrants came in as an adult. So it’s imperative to come up with something that includes this segment of society.
I appreciate your help once again
Thanks,
Kassahun