Are you already familiar with the New Readers' Press materials?  Alta Book
Center Publishers in San Francisco also has great materials.

 

Pictures from the regular media as well as many basic ESL texts are very
effective for conversation practice.

 

Rosemary

 

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From: familyliteracy-bounces at nifl.gov
[mailto:familyliteracy-bounces at nifl.gov] On Behalf Of William Koonce
Sent: Thursday, September 03, 2009 2:07 PM
To: The Adult English Language Learners Discussion List;
professionaldevelopment at nifl.gov; familyliteracy at nifl.gov
Subject: [FamilyLiteracy 1560] Re: [EnglishLanguage 4819] Re:
Multiplediscourses

 

Hello, This is a bit off the topic, but it does have to do with oral
proficiency. Can anyone recommend some resources with practical conversation
hands on activities for tutors (one-on-one and small group) situations? I
would really appreciate your response.

Maria

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From: Andrea <mailto:andreawilder at comcast.net>  Wilder 

To: The <mailto:englishlanguage at nifl.gov>  Adult English Language Learners
Discussion List 

Sent: Thursday, September 03, 2009 1:25 PM

Subject: [EnglishLanguage 4819] Re: Multiple discourses

 

OK, here is my understanding.

 

Scaffolding = comes from the idea that knowledge is constructed and that one
of the teacher's jobs is to support the student's learning quite directly,
that is, often by talking a student through a problem.  Vygotsky terminology

 

Register = ways of speaking and writing adapted to different occasions,
e.g., a thank you note, a grocery list, an essay.

 

Andrea

 

 

On Sep 3, 2009, at 12:54 PM, Steve Kaufmann wrote:





I am not familiar with this specialist terminology. Is is possible to
express the same concepts in terms that are easily understood by a lay
person?

Steve

On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 8:49 AM, Michael Gyori <tesolmichael at yahoo.com>
wrote:

Greetings everyone,

 

We are presumably all familiar with the importance of scaffolding in
instruction, i.e. building upon our learners' background knowledge.
Registers are associated with real-life domains.  We need to work on helping
those domains take on a life of their own, so to speak, and the register
will then be context-embedded and more meaningful, thus easier to learn and
use rather than residing in the "abstract."

 

Michael
 

Michael A. Gyori 

Maui International Language School 

 <http://www.mauilanguage.com/> www.mauilanguage.com

 

 

 

 


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