[NIFL-ESL:4642] Re: Citizenship

From: Amelia Han (ahan@email.sjsu.edu)
Date: Tue Jul 11 2000 - 12:33:24 EDT 

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Re: Citizenship
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 :)

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 Project Crackdown. 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 "English for Community Action" as the title of my course, the type of ESP being English for Sociocultural Purposes.

However, I also have several questions re: the objectives of my project, one of which is re: the issue/controversy on the use of language teaching to initiate social action.

I would appreciate hearing comments on or receiving any references to this issue.

Amelia Han
MATESOL Student
from Singapore
via San Jose State University

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