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Connecting Diverse Cultures guide and video

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Learn more about the video on refugee families and youth and the companion facilitator’s guide designed to provide effective and flexible tools to build greater cultural awareness and understanding in K-12 and adult education contexts.
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Services
CAL offers a variety of professional development and technical assistance services for practitioners working with adult English language learners. Learn more.

Adult English Proficiency Assessments
Learn more about CAL's assessments for adults learning English.

Developing Oral Proficiency of Adults Learning English

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This free online professional development module is designed for adult ESL practitioners who want to know more about building the speaking and listening skills of adult English language learners.
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EL/Civics online courses
View online courses and tutorials to assist teachers in creating effective ESL civics lessons.

Online Archive

CAL continues to make available the CAELA and CAELA Network websites to provide convenient online access to resources from these projects. Click on each logo below to visit these websites.

  

English Language Learners

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For over 30 years, CAL has served as a leader in the education of adults learning English, with a focus on providing effective professional development and technical assistance to build capacity to enhance the language learning and literacy skills of adults learning English. In addition to offering a variety of face-to-face and online training and professional development for adult education practitioners, CAL is also well known for its adult English proficiency assessments.

Visit our CAL Solutions Adult ESL Education Website.

This website has been created to provide a convenient resource to the variety of resources available from CAL for practitioners working with adults learning English.  We invite you to bookmark the website and visit often to browse our collection of resources.

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CAL’s professional development and technical assistance services focus on improving educational opportunities for and success of adult English language learners. Learn more.

Resources
CAL offers a variety of publications, briefs, assessments, databases, bibliographies, and other resources for professionals serving adult English language learners. All briefs and major papers undergo an anonymous external review process before they are finalized and published.

Practitioner Toolkit: Working With Adult English Language Learners

Practitioner Toolkit cover This toolkit provides a variety of materials to help language and literacy instructors who are new to serving adults and families learning English. These materials include a first-day orientation guide, lesson plans, and research-to-practice papers on English language and literacy learning. Learn more.

Digests and Briefs
CAL has been a leader for decades in providing evidence-based resources for practitioners working with adult English language learners. Resources include those from the National Clearinghouse for Literacy Education (NCLE) established in 1989 to the resources and training provided through the Center for Adult English Language Acquisition (CAELA) and, most recently, the CAELA Network. CAL has focused on making evidence-based resources readily available to practitioners nationwide who work with this growing population of language learners.

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Email: adultesl@cal.org
Call: 202-355-1556

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