Note: Normally, I do not publish my blog, English
Updates, on weekends. However, I publish several other blogs during the
week having to do with ideas in English education that are not current, but
still useful. On weekends, I will publish samples of these ideas. RayS.
Question: How can teachers build on ESL students’ experience and budding
English language skills?
Answer: Language experience is a technique in which the
students dictate information or ideas, the language of the students is recorded
by the teacher on chart paper, blackboard, white board, etc., and then the
ideas are re-read by the students from the chart paper, etc.
This technique is appropriate for ESL students of all ages, even adults.
“However, the language experience approach is not intended to be the sole
approach to reading, for students also need to learn how to read texts written
by others.”
Comment: I think I could adapt the language experience
approach to my regular English class. This is the first useful technique I have
encountered in this article. RayS.
Title: “Instructional Approaches and Teaching Procedures.” AU
Chamot and JM O’Malley. Pp. 82-107. In Kids Come in All Languages: Reading
Instruction for ESL Students. Eds. K Spangensberg-Urgschat and R
Pritchard. Newark, DE: IRA. 1994.
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