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From: "Corinne Moran" <cmoranmv@gis.net>
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Subject: [NIFL-ESL:6739] Re: Illiterate in primary language
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Dottie Shattuck, Peggy Seufert, Linda Rowland
Thank you all! Great suggestions. We'll get started right away.
What a great service this group provides. I'm sorry I didn't hear about
it sooner.
Corinne
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>From: "Dottie Shattuck" <dottie@shattuck.net>
>To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-esl@literacy.nifl.gov>
>Subject: [NIFL-ESL:6737] Re: Illiterate in primary language
>Date: Tue, Nov 20, 2001, 2:27 PM
>
> Corinne -- I taught non-literate Hmong adults for several years in a
> volunteer-based program & now have several non-literate Somalis in my Intro
ESL
> class at the community college. You're right; the man NEEDS survival
> skills/language NOW in English!
>
> My advice is to work on the alphabet & numbers (individual volunteers are
great
> for this!), enabling him to learn to write & say his name, address & phone
number
> in English. Also work on other basic oral skills. For reading, at this
point,
> concentrate on sight words that he'll see in the community: restrooms, men,
stop,
> walk/don't walk, danger, etc., as well as telling time & money. That should
keep
> the volunteers & the man busy for a while. Use individual letters & numbers
(on
> index cards or plastic, for instance) to help him spell.
>
> Good luck
>
> Dottie Shattuck
> Charlotte, NC
>
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> From: "Corinne Moran" <cmoranmv@gis.net>
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> | I coordinate our volunteer ESL program. We have a man in his forties who
> | speaks no English and cannot read or write in his native language
> | (Portuguese).
> | Our tutors are not trained to teach reading, and others who can teach
> | reading are not trained in ESL.
> | I don't know yet whether there is a problem like dyslexia etc. I believe it
> | is best to teach an adult non-reader in his primary language, but he needs
> | survival English.
> | I assume he's gotten this far by using other senses. Using aural/oral
> | techniques, dialogues, TPR, pictures, music etc. we should be able to help
> | him communicate, but what about the reading/writing?
> | Anyone with experience?
> | Corinne Moran
> | ESL Coordinator, Martha's Vineyard Volunteers for Literacy
> | cmoranmv@gis.net
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> | <TT>I coordinate our volunteer ESL program. We have a man in his fort=
> | ies who <BR>
> | speaks no English and cannot read or write in his native language<BR>
> | (Portuguese).<BR>
> | Our tutors are not trained to teach reading, and others who can teach<BR>
> | reading are not trained in ESL.<BR>
> | I don't know yet whether there is a problem like dyslexia etc. I beli=
> | eve it<BR>
> | is best to teach an adult non-reader in his primary language, but he needs<=
> | BR>
> | survival English.<BR>
> | I assume he's gotten this far by using other senses. Using aural/oral<BR>
> | techniques, dialogues, TPR, pictures, music etc. we should be able to help<=
> | BR>
> | him communicate, but what about the reading/writing?<BR>
> | Anyone with experience?<BR>
> | Corinne Moran<BR>
> | ESL Coordinator, Martha's Vineyard Volunteers for Literacy<BR>
> | <FONT COLOR=3D"#0000FF"><U>cmoranmv@gis.net<BR>
> | </U></FONT><BR>
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