Teaching Adult ESL: A Practical Introduction

by Betsy Parrish

Teaching Adult ESL is the first comprehensive yet practical overview of adult ESL teaching methodology for teachers and teachers in preparation.

336 pages, Paperback

First published February 9, 2001

Reviews

[Tanya · Rating 4 out of 5]

This textbook for teaching English as a Second Language aims to prepare teachers for everything they'll face in the classroom - various levels of learners, revolving class composition, interweaving different areas of language and acquisition modalities, learning assessment, and even how to deal with the social and psychological challenges of often traumatized students. I purchased and read this to subsidize my training by the English Skills Learning Center, and will begin teaching next week. After reading this text, I do feel prepared, and will refer back to it often for sample activities and lesson plan ideas. I found especially valuable the section dealing with identifying and teaching to specific learner needs. I loved the author's suggestion of using dialogue journals, but I don't think my emergent reader students' skills will be up to this technique. Maybe sometime in the future...

[Lindsay · Rating 5 out of 5]

I have no idea what I'm doing every day.

[Melanie · Rating 4 out of 5]

Not bad for a textbook!