tailieunhanh - Listening and Speaking Activities for Adult ESL Learners

What are conditions like in primary schools? How many hours, if any, of English language learning do students receive before they enter secondary school? Is primary education free? What's the student-teacher ratio? Are schools in rural areas different from schools in towns? Are there textbooks? Who wrote them? When? Do parents pay for them? Or are they issued free of charge by the government? What percentage of the population completes primary school? What's the ratio of girls to boys? Is there a national primary leaving examination? What happens to those who don't get into secondary schools? How. | Listening and Speaking Activities for Adult ESL Learners Correlated to the BEST Plus Assessment and CASAS Listening Basic Skills Content Standards Jane C. Miller Colorado Department of Education Adult Education Family Literacy Regional Assessment Trainings 2007 1 Introduction Adult ESL learners have countless daily opportunities for listening and speaking in English as they interact as workers family members community members and classroom learners. Some listening is non-face-to-face such as listening to movies and broadcast media listening on the phone and listening to loudspeaker announcements. Most listening however combines short bursts of face-to-face listening interspersed with speaking - such as discussions at the workplace social conversations with neighbors and colleagues telephone conversations and conversations with the many service providers encountered daily - doctors social workers police officers store clerks and school staff. In each context learners have a purpose for listening and a communication task. Listeners may listen to obtain facts or to understand the main idea. They may need to distinguish question words and respond appropriately. They may need to follow or give instructions or advice. Adult learners may need to distinguish facts from opinions or express their own point of view. They may need to relate what they hear to visual materials they are looking at. They may want to connect with other people by sharing personal stories. Many factors can interfere with listening and speaking to create confusions and miscommunications. Misheard sounds and pronunciation errors inappropriate word choices or wrongly-used grammatical forms can lead to communication breakdowns. Breakdowns can have significant consequences -embarrassment unintended offense missed appointments inaccurate processes etc. ESL teachers have the opportunity to help adult ESL learners practice listening and speaking in the safe environment of the classroom. Many textbooks .