Tom,

We would like for you to plan to be at our September mini-conference. Please 
let us know the details of your travel arrangements. Would you like to stay 
in a local hotel or a local family home - like mine? My children are old 
enough to behave, most days! Thank you for letting us know your preference.

Jenny

Jennifer B. Gore
Executive Director
Reading Connections, Inc.
122 N. Elm Street, STE 520
Greensboro, NC 27401
336-230-2223


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To: <professionaldevelopment at nifl.gov>
Sent: Friday, May 23, 2008 12:24 PM
Subject: [ProfessionalDevelopment 2143] Re: Seeking input on 
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> Jennifer: The following may be of interest. Tom Sticht

>

> Free Workshop on Listening & Reading Processes of Adults

>

> Presented by Tom Sticht, International Consultant in Adult Education

>

> Recently there has been a growing interest in listening research and

> instruction with native English speaking adult literacy learners in 

> various

> industrialized nations. For this reason adult literacy providers may be

> interested in my workshop that I first presented in 1999. I have recently

> (2006) participated in seminars in London, England on listening, speaking,

> and reading processes and instruction with adult learners and have

> incorporated new research into my workshop.

>

> The Workshop on Listening & Reading Processes of Adults addresses aspects 

> of

> the Workforce Investment Act of 1998, Title II: The Adult Education and

> Family Literacy Act that focus attention on relationships among listening

> and reading abilities of adults. In particular, this includes  information

> about phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary  and comprehension

> in reading and how this builds on and adds to adult's listening skills. 

> The

> questions, methods and findings of four decades of research on adult's

> listening and reading skills will be summarized. The workshop emphasizes

> the role of adults' listening and speaking skills in family and workplace

> literacy contexts.

>

> Listening has been identified as a critical work-related skill but it has

> been almost totally ignored in national assessments of adult literacy. 

> 2008

> is the 100th anniversary of E. B. Huey's 1908 classic book, "The 

> Psychology

> and Pedagogy of Reading" in which he stated that, "The child comes to his

> first reader with his habits of spoken language fairly well formed, and

> these habits grow more deeply set with every year. His meanings inhere in

> this spoken language and belong but secondarily to the printed 

> symbols...."

> . This workshop presents extensive research and data from the United 

> States

> and United Kingdom on the oracy (speaking and listening)  skills of adults

> and how these skills relate to workforce development and the

> intergenerational transfer of language and literacy skills from parents to

> their children.

>

> Goals. The goals of the Workshop on Listening  & Reading Processes of 

> Adults

> are (1) to summarize four decades of  R & D on adults' listening and 

> reading

> skills; (2) to present information on writing  as a second signaling 

> system

> for  speech and how that involves phonemic awareness and phonics training

> in bridging from listening to reading for information and for learning, 

> (3)

> to illustrate techniques for training listening skills for learning by

> listening and to improve reading fluency and comprehension, and (4) to

> illustrate how listening and literacy practices can be assessed using

> various methods including the use of the telephone to provide assessments

> of the need for listening and literacy education among the local  adult

> population.

>

> Outcomes. Following the workshop, participants will be able to (1) discuss

> the R & D on listening and reading using specific references to the R &  D

> literature and use this information in their planning for adult literacy

> education, (2) incorporate information about the place and manner of

> articulation and other types of information relating listening and reading

> processes of adults into their planning for program development that helps

> adults bridge from oral to written language skills, (3) use this

> information in planning for the development of teaching and learning

> activities for both native language speakers and for English as an

> additional language for non-native English speakers, and (4) apply the

> information to the design and conduct of local needs assessments for adult

> literacy education including the assessment of adults' knowledge and

> literacy practices  by listening in telephone interviews.

>

> I charge no fee for the workshop, but sponsors must pay travel expenses 

> and

> make all arrangements for the events. Contact me at tsticht at aznet.net if

> you want to arrange for a workshop (or other presentation) in your area.

>

> My present schedule for speeches and workshops includes:

>

> June 20, Socorro, NM

> August 6, Winston-Salem, NC

> September 9, Hartford, CT (tentative)

> September 11, Greensboro, NC (tentative)

> October 14, Crystal Lake, IL

> October 22, San Diego, CA

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