Best Practices for Teaching the "Whole" Adult ESL Learner

Autor/in	Schwarzer, David
Titel	Best Practices for Teaching the "Whole" Adult ESL Learner
Quelle	In: New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, (2009) 121, S.25-33 PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1052-2891
DOI	10.1002/ace.322
Schlagwörter	Class Activities; Adult Education; Second Language Learning; Adult Learning; Adult Students; Language Skills; Language Acquisition; Best Practices; Whole Language Approach; Vignettes; Literature Reviews; Teaching Methods + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Adult; Adults; Education; Adult basic education; Adult training; Erwachsenenbildung; Zweitsprachenerwerb; Adulte education; Student; Students; Erwachsenenalter; Studentin; Schüler; Schülerin; Language skill; Sprachkompetenz; Sprachaneignung; Spracherwerb; Integrierter Sprachunterricht; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode
Abstract	Whole language learning implies that teachers look at adult learners as whole persons rather than just ESL learners. It asks the teachers to see the learners in their classes as parents, spouses, employees or business owners, neighbors, churchgoers, and members of various communities. In other words, when they approach learners in their classes as whole persons, they view them as adults with accomplishments, responsibilities, relationships, personal histories, and hopes. Moreover, whole language encourages the teacher and the learner to look at language not in segments but as a whole. In whole language, all language skills are integrated, class participants learn about the cultures of their peers and their communities, social rules are openly discussed, and class activities incorporate the students' knowledge and talents. Based on adult second-language acquisition research and whole-language principles, this chapter describes some best practices for teaching adults in ESL classrooms. (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10