[NIFL-ESL:8325] Re: recommendations for textbook series

From: Barb Linek (eslmax@hotmail.com)
Date: Tue Nov 19 2002 - 15:14:48 EST 

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With our migrant farmworkers, we use Crossroads (from Oxford) which is slow paced and very repetitive, good for low-literate students.   Even the upper levels are pretty low. For more educated students, we also have Side by Side which reaches a much more advanced level.

Barb Linek

Project MAX
Adult Education Services Coordinator
(815) 609-9935
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>From: "Dottie Shattuck" <DOTTIE@SHATTUCK.NET>
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>Subject: [NIFL-ESL:8313] Re: recommendations for textbook series
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>We don't use it, but I wish we would -- Steck-Vaugh's "Real-life English." It has
>at least 5 levels (including Literacy) & some auxiliary pieces.
>
>Dottie Shattuck
>Charlotte, NC
>
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>| Do any of you use a textbook series across all levels of your adult ed ESL
>| program? If so, do you have a favorite you'd recommend. Or have you found
>| that one series doesn't have enough spread across three or four levels from
>| zero-based to advanced? If that is the case, do you use two series, or do
>| you use a completely different set of books for each level?
>|
>| Terry Pruett-Said
>| ESL teacher
>| Michigan
>|
>|
>|

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