This demonstration will enable you to do the same with your students. The presenter describes a plan for using authentic literature in a low intermediate ESL reading class. Using John Steinbeck's The Pearl as an example, the presenter explains the procedure and its rationale and shares student responses to quizzes and feedback on the experience. The presenter discusses a whole-language concept tracing the phonograph record's rise and fall of popularity along with the history of the recording industry. He shows that all skill areas benefit by examining U.S. pop music culturally and historically.
Students stay motivated through realia, music, and engaging language activities.
This demonstration focuses on responding to the needs of students whose language skills are too low for the standard IEP curriculum. The presenters share their experiences in designing a diagnostic tool to identify such students as well as generating cost-effective instructional materials to respond to their needs. The presenter describes how to manipulate the material in order to generate a wide range of language data from the students. A guide for oral evaluation is provided. This colloquium evaluates the role of grammar teaching and proposes a model of curriculum design, teacher development, and classroom-level implementation in which grammar teaching emphasizes both correct linguistic form and fluency.