[NLA] New from NCLE: online document on adult ESL practice

[Miriam Burt]

On February 15, 2001, NCLE held a panel discussion on adult ESL
practice. Ron Pugsley of the U.S. Department of Education, Office of
Vocational and Adult Education (OVAE) spoke on the adult learner
population, Rebecca Moak of OVAE on EL/Civics, Jin Sook Lee of the Asian
Pacific American Labor Alliance on rights of immigrant adults in the
U.S. workforce, Larry Condelli of AIR on instructional strategies for
English language learners with limited literacy skills, Cathy Shank of
West Virginia ABE on English language learners with learning
disabilities, and Marilyn Gillespie of SRI on professional development
and working conditions of adult education teachers. 

Although the event was held 10 months ago, the topics discussed are
still topics of great concern to practitioners and researchers working
with adults learning English. 

Online, at http://www.cal.org/ncle/millennium.htm, read the document
based on the proceedings of that panel event. Written by NCLE Director
Joy Peyton, the document uses the resources of the Internet to present
not only what was said at the event, but also to connect to power point
presentations given by the panelists and to maps and other documents
related to the presentations. In short, although the panel was held last
February, this Web document brings it up to the present in terms of
information presented.

Please contact us at NCLE if you have any questions or would like more
information on any of the topics discussed in this document.

Thanks.
Miriam Burt
Associate Director, National Center for ESL Literacy Education (NCLE)
Center for Applied Linguistics
4646 40th Street NW
Washington, DC 20015
(202) 362-0700 (phone)
(202) 363-7204 (fax)
miriam at cal.org
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