Adult ESL Resources

CAELA staff, as well as colleagues at the Center for Applied Linguistics and in the field have developed a variety of resources on topics of interest to adult ESL practitioners. These resources include bibliographies, books, briefs, online resource collections, digests and Q & As, and Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs).

Other resources available on the CAELA Web site include:

• Adult English Language Instruction in the 21st Century is available in English at www.cal.org/caela/esl_resources/languageinstructionEng.pdf and in Spanish at www.cal.org/caela/esl_resources/languageinstructionSP.pdf



• Adult ESL Language and Literacy Instruction: A Vision and Action Agenda for the 21st Century at www.cal.org/caela/esl_resources/vision.pdf



• Adult ESL Fact Sheets at www.cal.org/caela/esl_resources/collections/factsheets.html

 

• A Brief History of Adult ESL Instruction (PowerPoint presentation, May 2008) at www.cal.org/caela/esl_resources/ESLhistory.ppt; related reference list available at www.cal.org/caela/esl_resources/ESLhistoryref.html

 

• Bringing Literacy to Life by Heide Spruck Wrigley & Gloria J. A Guth, Aguirre International for the U.S. Dpeartment of Education, Office of Vocational and Adult Education (OVAE), 1992 (2000) at www.cal.org/caela/esl_resources/BringingLiteracytoLife.pdf

 

• Framework for Quality Professional Development for Practitioners Working With Adult English Language Learners at www.cal.org/caelanetwork/profdev/framework/

• Picture Stories for ESL Health Literacy at www.cal.org/caela/esl_resources/Health/healthindex.html



• Proceedings of the National Symposium on Adult ESL Research and Practice (September 4-7, 2001) at www.caela/esl_resources/nationalsymposium.pdf

• Project Based Learning and Assessment: A Resource Manual for Teachers Arlington Education and Employment Program. 1997. ERIC No. ED 442 306 at www.cal.org/caela/esl_resources/REEPproj.pdf

• Reading and Adult English Language Learners: A Review of the Research (2003) available in pdf at www.cal.org/caela/research/raell.pdf
  
  
• Research Agenda for Adult ESL at www.cal.org/caela/esl_resources/agenda.pdf

• Senior Scenarios: What Would You Do? (excerpted from A Guide for Providers: Engaging Immigrant Seniors in Community Service and Employment Programs written by CAELA staff members and published by Senior Service America and the Center for Applied Linguistics at www.cal.org/caela/tools/program_development/Seniorscenarios.pdf

• Student Performance Level (SPL) Descriptors for Listening Comprehension and Oral Communication at www.cal.org/caela/esl_resources/slspls.html

• Student Performance Level Descriptors for Reading and Writing at www.cal.org/caela/esl_resources/rwspls.html

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Note: For information about links on the the CAELA Web site, go to Adult ESL Resource Links.

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