Effective Teaching Strategies in an Adult ESL Classroom
This is part 1 of a 4 part video illustrating effective teaching strategies in an adult ESL classroom. The teacher uses pictures and text, and real fruits and vegetables to teach basic vocabulary and language structures. She connects classroom and community by having students go on a site visit to a local farm to practice the language they are learning. Students later visit a grocery store where they ask questions. Back in the classroom they compare prices and do further language work. Heide Spruck Wrigley narrates and highlights effective instructional strategies and promising practices, including “bringing the outside in.”
These were very helpful and would be useful to beginning ESOL teachers. All of the techniques are accurate and very adaptable as learning methods in the classroom.
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