Online Study Circle: Teaching Reading to Adult English Language Learners
Start date: November 5, 2007
End date: December 20, 2007
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Would you like to deepen your knowledge and expand your skills in teaching reading to adult English language learners? Would you like to discuss the latest research in this area and how to use it in your classroom with colleagues across the state? As an in-depth extension of the on-site workshop Teaching Reading to Adult English Language Learners, this study circle will familiarize you with the existing research on the process of reading and explore the instructional implications of this research as it relates to your teaching. Organized into two parts over a seven-week period, the study circle provides online discussion of this research with fellow participants. This discussion is facilitated by an ESOL expert. The time commitment is approximately eight hours.
This study circle is offered to you by the Virginia Adult Learning Resource Center. The study circle and related activities will be included as a training resource in the CAELA Guide for Adult ESL Trainers created by the Center for Adult English Language Acquisition at the Center for Applied Linguists in Washington, D.C., for adult ESOL staff development trainers.
The format for the study circle is self-paced, facilitated, and asynchronous. According to the CAELA Guide, “a study circle is not training on a given topic, but rather a way to study with colleagues, and in the process, to use research to improve one’s practice.”
The study circle requires that you read two relevant articles based on current research findings, complete some short assignments, and participate in regular online discussions.
Prerequisite: Participants MUST have attended the on-site day-long workshop entitled: Teaching Reading to Adult English Language Learners and, currently, be teaching or tutoring adult English Language Learners.
Topics and activities:- Role of the learner’s first language and reading
- Reflection on current classroom practice
- Review and implementation of the Virginia Adult ESOL Content Standards for the skill of Reading
- Self-assessment on the use of reading strategies
- The English language learner and the reading process
- Planning and implementing an intervention activity
- Planning a “reading” lesson