[AAACE-NLA] Questions/answers

[David Rosen]

Hello Andrea,

The Adult Literacy Education Wiki, in many of its topic areas, has  
questions from the field, often originally posed on e-lists like this  
one.  In some cases it also has answers, from professional wisdom or  
research.

Here's an example of the questions from the ESOL topic area:

ESOLQuestions

1.  Where can I find English language learning (ESL, ESOL or ELL)  
statistics?
2. Are there studies that consider teaching second language literacy  
to pre-literate adults?
3. While we are waiting for experimental design ESL/ESOL studies to  
be funded, finished, or to have their results reported, what should  
practitioners base their decisions on?
4. Are there any studies about student-to-teacher class ratios? Are  
there any recommendations for best practices?
5. Do students (those with the same writing system) who learn to read  
in a second language use that knowledge to learn to read their first  
language?

	http://wiki.literacytent.org/index.php/AleESOLQuestions

You might also wonder what are the topics that the field is  
interested in.  There are 25 topics listed on the ALE Wiki

	http://wiki.literacytent.org/

I hope you will share with us whatever questions people send you. Who  
knows, they may end up on the ALE Wiki -- with answers!

David J. Rosen
DJRosen at theworld.com

On Jan 6, 2006, at 1:08 PM, AWilder106 at aol.com wrote:

> Colleagues--
>
> I am in the process of writing a long paper, and would like to know  
> "from the field" what questions you might have that I could  
> answer.  I have been asking questions on the listservs for 'lo  
> these many years, and now it's time to give back, I guess you could  
> say. I am in a position to find answers--whatever libraries,  
> listservs, conferences, interviews, can provide.  Of course, the  
> paper isn't as wide-open as it sounds, but I would like to address  
> relevant concerns.  I am relying heavily on the enormous amount of  
> information available on list servs like this, so thanks a lot for  
> your help, I want to get as close to everyday reality as possible.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Andrea
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