[AAACE-NLA] Pre- and Post-NIFL Agenda

[HKerr at aol.com]

In a message dated 10/04/2010 05:39:55 GMT Daylight Time, tsticht at znet.com  
writes:

1. How do  adults learn to read and write and acquire other skills
(listening,  speaking, reasoning, etc.)?



I would not want to comment in detail, as I am no expert. I am an ABE  
tutor of long experience, though, and would wish to direct attention less  
towards the technical debate and more towards the affective. ABE students learn,  
like sponges actually, if they are engaged, confident and dealing with 
material  which matters to them in a democratic, validating setting. This can be 
 difficult to achieve in large classes, with adults who, at least in 
respect of  literacy, are damaged and anxious, but in small groups (or, IMO even 
better, 1:1  at least at times) can easily be done. If the affect is right 
the rest will  follow. We do not, after all, yet have consensus even on what 
we do when we  read. We do know how people flower in the right soil, though. 
Teachers do,  anyway.
 
Hugo


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be." (Kurt Vonnegut) 
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