Current ESOL Projects
Adult ESOL Content Standards
Presently in draft form, these content standards are in the process of review, revision, editing and compilation for initial implementation in early 2007.
ESL Toolkit for Construction and Landscape Workers
Available in the fall of 2006, this curriculum provides lesson plans, instructional materials, storyboards and hundreds of drawings for construction and landscape workers at lower proficiency levels of ESL.
Financial Literacy
An online multi-level curriculum for teaching financial literacy to ESL students will be the final product of an EL/Civics three year project. The curriculum includes a model for conducting student needs assessment, lesson plans with handouts, storyboards, and links to other resources. It will be piloted in two local programs beginning in the winter of 2007.
LESLLA
An international forum, Research, Practice, and Policy for Low-educated Second Language and Literacy Acquisition - for Adults (LESLLA), will be held at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Virginia, November 2-3, 2006.
Low Educated Second Language and Literacy Acquisition (LESLLA) for Adults is an international forum of researchers who share an interest in research into the development of second language skills by adult immigrants with little or no schooling prior to emigrating to their new country of residence.
CAELA
We have begun a second year in a collaborative project with the Center for Adult English Language Acquisition to launch and implement Virginia's Adult ESOL Content Standards in local programs.