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 i16IvmI01418; Fri, 6 Feb 2004 13:57:48 -0500 (EST) Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2004 13:57:48 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <13507803.1F17A868.0AB94E44@aol.com> 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: AndresMuro@aol.com To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-esl@literacy.nifl.gov> Subject: [NIFL-ESL:9869] Re: textbook recommendations? X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 X-Mailer: Atlas Mailer 2.0 Status: RO Content-Length: 1303 Lines: 12 Stop giving you money to publishers for the unoriginal crap they keep regurgitating again and again. we complain that there is no money in ABE and the little we have we return to the corporations. They already get plenty of help from the government that pushes mandatory testing, etc. May be, the only reason the government still funds adult education is that the corporations want to keep on selling their crap. Every year publishers take the previuos year's ESL books, they change a page of content, change the order of the content and they re-release their crap forcing programs to keep buying their useless products. As if changing one page, and putting the chapter on passive voice before the one on reported speech made that much difference in teaching ESL properly. If you really want to use textbooks, get someone to donate an old edition of the most popular ESL textbook which will be equally crapy ESL teachers don't need to depend on textbooks to teach. If they do, then they need additional preparation. Invest your money in professional development and hire one of a bunch of people that can show your teachers how to teach meaningful stuff. Heide Wrigley could be a good start. Andres PS: "Heide, can I get comission for this" -- go here: www.geocities.com/andresmuro/art.html
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