[AAACE-NLA] A New Study of Explicit Literacy Instruction for Adult ESL Students

[Condelli, Larry]

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 at air.org.
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