In fact, in  Practitioner Toolkit: Working with Adult English Language
Learners, the National Center for Family Literacy along with the Center
for Applied Linguistics published a guide for those working specifically
with adults learning to read who are not native English speakers -
discussing the role of phonological processing, vocabulary knowledge,
syntactic processing, and background knowledge. In section II, pages 57
-59, these skills are discussed. Then, on pages II- 60 -61, pre-reading
activities to use with pre-literate and nonliterate English language
learners are described. (The next pages have activities to use with
beginning level learners, intermediate, and advanced). You can download
the toolkit in PDF at
http://www.cal.org/caela/tools/instructional/prac_toolkit.html

Miriam Burt
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Miriam Burt
Center for Applied Linguistics
4646 40th Street NW
Washington, DC 20016
(202) 362-0700
(202) 363-7204 (fax)
miriam at cal.org 


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