Return-Path: <nifl-esl@literacy.nifl.gov> Received: from literacy (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by literacy.nifl.gov (8.10.2/8.10.2) with SMTP id hAJJTom13826; Wed, 19 Nov 2003 14:29:50 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2003 14:29:50 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <3FBBC611.70408@sbcsc.k12.in.us> Errors-To: listowner@literacy.nifl.gov Reply-To: nifl-esl@literacy.nifl.gov Originator: nifl-esl@literacy.nifl.gov Sender: nifl-esl@literacy.nifl.gov Precedence: bulk From: Joyce Juarez <jjuarez@sbcsc.k12.in.us> To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-esl@literacy.nifl.gov> Subject: [NIFL-ESL:9637] Re: Advanced, non-academic writing textbooks X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Status: O Content-Length: 1202 Lines: 33 You may want to preview the series Workplace Plus Levels 1-4 by Joan Saslow from Addison Wesley Longman (longman.com) a division of Pearson Education. It would be a good place to get some ideas that could be adapted for your group. Joyce Juarez South Bend, IN "CC - Amanda Harrison-Perez, Immigration & Refugee"@nifl.gov wrote: >I am planning to offer a writing class for a group of advanced students (SPL >6-8 and beyond) in connection with the Employment Services program in my >agency. Through discussions with several of the potential participants, I >have found out that they have the following goals for a writing class: >1. Improve spelling >2. Improve punctuation and sentence structure. >3. Practice real-world writing (i.e. memos, e-mail, short reports, etc.) >They are not interested in academic writing. Several expressed interest in >dictations as a way to work on their spelling; they want the connection >between the oral and written word. > >Can anyone recommend a textbook or a combination of textbooks that would be >useful in such a writing class? > >Thank you. > >Amanda S. Harrison-Perez >ESL Program Manager >Catholic Charities' Immigration and Refugee Services > > > >
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