Trained staff members familiarize tutors and adult students with the Center's computer programs video and audio tapes, and printed materials. Traveling LLC library collections and traveling computers, complete with educational software, are services also available to area literacy programs. LLC provides a central location for tutoring that offers privacy and support for adult students. The program targets adults with low level English skills who are not enrolled in institutes of higher education. The Vigo County Public Library recruits, trains, supervises, and supports its volunteer tutors.
Tutors provide individualized instruction based on each student's needs and goals.
Inc. The Vigo County Public Library's ESL program is a member of the Wabash Valley Literacy Coalition. This is a user-friendly website that has many interesting ideas such as an Idea Page, an Idiom Page and Chat Central. It also provides an excellent Web Guide. Although not strictly an ESL site, this site does have a nice selection of topics that may be useful to ESL tutors. It does have an ESL Section with many great links to other web resources.