Issues, Challenges and Alternatives in Teaching Adult ESL /
Virginia L. Sauvé.
- 1st ed.
- Don Mills, ON : Oxford University Press, 2000.
- xiii, 185 p. : cov ill. ; 23 cm.
- Voices and Visions .
Volume 2 in the Visions and Voices series.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
"Issues, Challenges and Alternative in Teaching Adult ESL provides a fresh look at some of the major issues involved in teaching adult ESL and encourages practitioners to reassess some of the values that inform their teaching. The book covers fundamental issues such as principles in the ESL classroom, race and ethnicity,social class, and gender. Chapters also focus on the particular challenges of teaching literacy learners and workplace education. The author reminds teachers of the need to design their ESL program conscious of values and ethics, the spiritual dimension of education, and the vision of society towards which they teach. The goal in teaching ESL is for learners to develop their Voice, their power to have a say in the world through the medium of English." (Book Cover)
CONTENTS: Section 1: Teaching and Learning Chapter 1: Metaphors and Modalities Chapter 2: Teaching the subject and the Subject Chapter 3: Principles in the ESL Classroom Chapter 4: Values and ethics: Towards a code of conduct Chapter 5: The fourth dimension Chapter 6: Participatory Education: A critical Alternative Section 2: The Classroom and The Community Chapter 7: Accountability and Evaluation Chapter 8: ESL and the World of Work Chapter 9: Literacy and ESL Chapter 10: Race and Ethnicity in the ESL Chapter 11: Social Class, Status and the ESL Classroom Chapter 12: Gender and Sexual Preference in the ESL Classroom Section 3: Being and Becoming Professional Chapter 13: Professional Issues Chapter 14: Working with Settlement Agencies Chapter 15: Voices and Visions Bibliography Index
9780195413946 (pbk)
English language--Study and teaching as a second language. English language--Study and teaching--Foreign speakers.