[NIFL-ESL:10646] Crosspost regarding a study on explicit literacy instruction

From: Lynda Terrill (lterrill@cal.org)
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Dear participants, 

The following crosspost may be of interest:

Lynda Terrill
lterrill@cal.org


 To All Listserv Members: 

The American Institutes for Research (AIR) is conducting An Evaluation
of the Impact of Explicit Literacy Instruction on Adult ESL Learners for
the Institute for Education Sciences, U.S. Department of Education.
This four year study will employ a randomized field trial to test the
effectiveness of an explicit literacy curriculum in improving the
reading, writing and oral English skills of low-literate adult
English-as-a-second language (ESL) learners.

An essential component of the study is the adaptation (or development)
of an explicit literacy curriculum that will be appropriate for adult
ESL learners.  AIR will be releasing a request for proposals (RFP) for
the development of this curriculum, which will then be implemented in a
sample of adult ESL programs across the country and compared with the
adult ESL instruction usually provided by the programs, using a
randomized design.

If you are interested in the RFP, please go to
http://www.air.org/explicitliteracy.  The RFP will be released around
December 28, 2004.  Please direct questions about the RFP to
explicitliteracy@air.org.

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