Re: [NIFL-ESL:4643] Re: Citizenship

From: Amelia Han (ahan@email.sjsu.edu)
Date: Tue Jul 11 2000 - 10:12:56 EDT 

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Re: [NIFL-ESL:4643] Re: Citizenship
Fran

The idea of having residents publish community resources on the web is a great one! But we'll of course need to determine what their computer literacy skill level is. In any case, it wouldn't be too difficult to do a simple website, would it? :)

Project Crackdown is basically a San Jose City program to crack down on drug use and crime in the neighborhoods, and an effort to improve living conditions. They do so by educating residents on what City resources are available to them so that the residents themselves take a proactive role in restoring their neighborhoods.

Hope this helps.

Can anyone respond to the issue of:
the use of language/literacy training to initiate social action.

Comments and references to published resources would be appreciated!

Thanks!

Amelia Han
MATESOL Student
San Jose State University

At 12:57 -0400 7/11/0, Fran Keenan wrote:
One idea is to have students actually compile information about community
resources and publish them in a directory or on the Web.


P.S. What is Project Crackdown? Sounds frightening!

Fran Keenan
PBS LiteracyLink
www.pbs.org/literacy/esl


<div>Thank you, all, for sharing these wonderful and probably most
updated resources re: Citizenship. I just completed one of my
elective MATESOL classes at San Jose St University, Special Topics in
ESP - English for Specific Purposes - taught by Dr Kathleen Miranda,
and we have been making reference to the recent postings that have
been on NIFL re: Citizenship curricula :)</div>
<div><br></div>
<div>As a graduate student new to the TESOL field, it is wonderful -
and reassuring - to know there's this vast pool of resources and
expertise out there, and especially applicable to ESP as well. I have
an earlier ESP project with a class Dr Peter Master taught that I am
still working on - the design of a curriculum to meet the needs of a
San Jose community of recent immigrant residents (mostly Spanish,
Vietnamese, Bosnian, and Russian) in conjunction with<i> Project
Crackdown</i>. The Community Coordinating Committee feels that one
main objective of the program is that these residents learn how to
access City resources. I have currently selected &quot;English for
Community Action&quot; as the title of my course, the type of ESP
being English for Sociocultural Purposes.</div>
<div><br></div>
<div>However, I also have several questions re: the objectives of my
project, one of which is re: the<b> issue/controversy on the use of
language teaching to initiate social action</b>.</div>
<div><br></div>
<div>I would appreciate hearing comments on or receiving any
references to this issue.</div>
<div><br></div>
<div>Amelia Han</div>
<div>MATESOL Student</div>
<div>from Singapore</div>
<div>via San Jose State University</div>

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