Elsa Auerbach
Biographic Data
| ID | 5997916 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Elsa Auerbach |
| GIVEN NAMES | Elsa |
| FAMILY NAME | Auerbach |
| SIGNATURE | AUERBACH E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Massachusetts Amherst |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 43 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1922 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Reflections on Auerbach (1993), “Reexamining English Only in the ESL Classroom”
Adult Biliteracy
It's Not the English Thing
Recent L2 reading research suggests that readers' metacognitive awareness of their reading processes and strategies enhances proficiency. This article presents a retrospective account of an undergraduate ESL reading course that takes the implications of this research one step further by bringing the research process directly into the ESL classroom: In this course, students were trained to investigate their own reading as part of the pedagogical p…
Alternatives in Tesol Research
Alister Cumming, Elaine Tarone, Andrew D. Cohen, Ulla Connor, Nina Spada, Nancy H. Hornberger, Alastair Pennycook, Elsa Auerbach, Alternatives in TESOL Research: Descriptive, Interpretive, and Ideological Orientations, TESOL Quarterly, Vol. 28, No. 4 (Winter, 1994), pp. 673-703
Sociopolitical Aspects of ESL in Canada
Putting the P Back in Participatory
0 The fact that participatory approaches to adult ESL are becoming increasingly popular is a double-edged sword. On the one hand, is heartening to see that participatory approaches are coming to be accepted as cutting edge rather than fringe views and that the field may even be on the verge of a paradigm shift. On the other hand, I am uncomfortable when the term participatory is used loosely to describe any approach that claims to involve learner…
Reexamining English Only in the ESL Classroom
Despite widespread opposition to the English Only movement, support for bilingual education, and advocacy for language rights, many U.S. ESL educators continue to uphold the notion that English is the only acceptable medium of communication within the confines of the ESL classroom. Although the exclusive use of English in teaching ESL has come to be seen as a natural and commonsense practice which can be justified on pedagogical grounds, this art…
Literacy and Ideology
The past decade has seen increasing acceptance of the perspective that there can be no disinterested, objective, and value-free definition of literacy: The way literacy is viewed and taught is always and inevitably ideological. All theories of literacy and all literacy pedagogies are framed in systems of values and beliefs which imply particular views of the social order and use literacy to position people socially. Even those views which paint l…
"Comments on James W. Tollefson's "Alien Winds
Elsa Auerbach, Comments on James W. Tollefson's "Alien Winds: The Reeducation of America's Indochinese Refugees" and Elsa Auerbach's Review. The Reviewer Responds, TESOL Quarterly, Vol. 24, No. 3 (Autumn, 1990), pp. 541-542
Alien Winds
U American personnel working in the Philippine Refugee Processing Center (PRPC) no longer live in buildings made of asbestos: After some protest, virtually all of them have been moved to asbestos-free concrete dormitories. But most of their Filipino counterparts and all of the camps' thousands of Indochinese refugees continue to live in asbestos housing despite massive documentation of its hazards, its pervasiveness, and recommendations for its r…
Toward a Social-Contextual Approach to Family Literacy
The increasing realization that family members can contribute to children's literacy development has given birth to family literacy programs designed to support immigrant and refugee families' participation in their children's education. Elsa Auerbach critically analyzes those family literacy programs that focus on teaching parents to do school-like activities in the home and to assist children with homework. She contends that the theoretical sta…
Getting There
Nontraditional Materials for Adult ESL
Tell Me about It
English at Work
Voices
"Comments on Elsa Roberts Auerbach's "Competency-Based ESL
Competency-Based ESL
While competency-based education has become widely accepted as the state-of-the-art approach to adult ESL, there has been little published discussion of its theoretical assumptions or implications. This article examines eight key descriptors of competency-based education in light of critiques from the fields of curriculum theory, adult basic education, and second language acquisition theory. The results of an informal survey of teacher attitudes …
The Hidden Curriculum of Survival ESL
This article discusses a new genre in ESL materials—the increasingly popular survival texts designed for newly arrived adults. A wide range of selections from these texts is examined in light of the stated goals of curriculum writers, as well as the less obvious social implications of these materials. In view of the explicit concern with realistic context, texts are evaluated in terms of both how accurately they reflect the immigrants' reality an…
Sanitation in Palestine
Reexamining English Only in the ESL Classroom
Despite widespread opposition to the English Only movement, support for bilingual education, and advocacy for language rights, many U.S. ESL educators continue to uphold the notion that English is the only acceptable medium of communication within the confines of the ESL classroom. Although the exclusive use of English in teaching ESL has come to be seen as a natural and commonsense practice which can be justified on pedagogical grounds, this art…
The Hidden Curriculum of Survival ESL
This article discusses a new genre in ESL materials—the increasingly popular survival texts designed for newly arrived adults. A wide range of selections from these texts is examined in light of the stated goals of curriculum writers, as well as the less obvious social implications of these materials. In view of the explicit concern with realistic context, texts are evaluated in terms of both how accurately they reflect the immigrants' reality an…
Alternatives in Tesol Research
Alister Cumming, Elaine Tarone, Andrew D. Cohen, Ulla Connor, Nina Spada, Nancy H. Hornberger, Alastair Pennycook, Elsa Auerbach, Alternatives in TESOL Research: Descriptive, Interpretive, and Ideological Orientations, TESOL Quarterly, Vol. 28, No. 4 (Winter, 1994), pp. 673-703
Putting the P Back in Participatory
0 The fact that participatory approaches to adult ESL are becoming increasingly popular is a double-edged sword. On the one hand, is heartening to see that participatory approaches are coming to be accepted as cutting edge rather than fringe views and that the field may even be on the verge of a paradigm shift. On the other hand, I am uncomfortable when the term participatory is used loosely to describe any approach that claims to involve learner…
It's Not the English Thing
Recent L2 reading research suggests that readers' metacognitive awareness of their reading processes and strategies enhances proficiency. This article presents a retrospective account of an undergraduate ESL reading course that takes the implications of this research one step further by bringing the research process directly into the ESL classroom: In this course, students were trained to investigate their own reading as part of the pedagogical p…
Competency-Based ESL
While competency-based education has become widely accepted as the state-of-the-art approach to adult ESL, there has been little published discussion of its theoretical assumptions or implications. This article examines eight key descriptors of competency-based education in light of critiques from the fields of curriculum theory, adult basic education, and second language acquisition theory. The results of an informal survey of teacher attitudes …
Reflections on Auerbach (1993), “Reexamining English Only in the ESL Classroom”
Sanitation in Palestine
The Hidden Curriculum of Survival ESL
This article discusses a new genre in ESL materials—the increasingly popular survival texts designed for newly arrived adults. A wide range of selections from these texts is examined in light of the stated goals of curriculum writers, as well as the less obvious social implications of these materials. In view of the explicit concern with realistic context, texts are evaluated in terms of both how accurately they reflect the immigrants' reality an…
Competency-Based ESL
While competency-based education has become widely accepted as the state-of-the-art approach to adult ESL, there has been little published discussion of its theoretical assumptions or implications. This article examines eight key descriptors of competency-based education in light of critiques from the fields of curriculum theory, adult basic education, and second language acquisition theory. The results of an informal survey of teacher attitudes …
"Comments on Elsa Roberts Auerbach's "Competency-Based ESL
Toward a Social-Contextual Approach to Family Literacy
The increasing realization that family members can contribute to children's literacy development has given birth to family literacy programs designed to support immigrant and refugee families' participation in their children's education. Elsa Auerbach critically analyzes those family literacy programs that focus on teaching parents to do school-like activities in the home and to assist children with homework. She contends that the theoretical sta…
Getting There
Nontraditional Materials for Adult ESL
Tell Me about It
English at Work
Voices
"Comments on James W. Tollefson's "Alien Winds
Elsa Auerbach, Comments on James W. Tollefson's "Alien Winds: The Reeducation of America's Indochinese Refugees" and Elsa Auerbach's Review. The Reviewer Responds, TESOL Quarterly, Vol. 24, No. 3 (Autumn, 1990), pp. 541-542
Alien Winds
U American personnel working in the Philippine Refugee Processing Center (PRPC) no longer live in buildings made of asbestos: After some protest, virtually all of them have been moved to asbestos-free concrete dormitories. But most of their Filipino counterparts and all of the camps' thousands of Indochinese refugees continue to live in asbestos housing despite massive documentation of its hazards, its pervasiveness, and recommendations for its r…
Literacy and Ideology
The past decade has seen increasing acceptance of the perspective that there can be no disinterested, objective, and value-free definition of literacy: The way literacy is viewed and taught is always and inevitably ideological. All theories of literacy and all literacy pedagogies are framed in systems of values and beliefs which imply particular views of the social order and use literacy to position people socially. Even those views which paint l…
Sociopolitical Aspects of ESL in Canada
Putting the P Back in Participatory
0 The fact that participatory approaches to adult ESL are becoming increasingly popular is a double-edged sword. On the one hand, is heartening to see that participatory approaches are coming to be accepted as cutting edge rather than fringe views and that the field may even be on the verge of a paradigm shift. On the other hand, I am uncomfortable when the term participatory is used loosely to describe any approach that claims to involve learner…
Reexamining English Only in the ESL Classroom
Despite widespread opposition to the English Only movement, support for bilingual education, and advocacy for language rights, many U.S. ESL educators continue to uphold the notion that English is the only acceptable medium of communication within the confines of the ESL classroom. Although the exclusive use of English in teaching ESL has come to be seen as a natural and commonsense practice which can be justified on pedagogical grounds, this art…
Alternatives in Tesol Research
Alister Cumming, Elaine Tarone, Andrew D. Cohen, Ulla Connor, Nina Spada, Nancy H. Hornberger, Alastair Pennycook, Elsa Auerbach, Alternatives in TESOL Research: Descriptive, Interpretive, and Ideological Orientations, TESOL Quarterly, Vol. 28, No. 4 (Winter, 1994), pp. 673-703
It's Not the English Thing
Recent L2 reading research suggests that readers' metacognitive awareness of their reading processes and strategies enhances proficiency. This article presents a retrospective account of an undergraduate ESL reading course that takes the implications of this research one step further by bringing the research process directly into the ESL classroom: In this course, students were trained to investigate their own reading as part of the pedagogical p…
Adult Biliteracy
Reflections on Auerbach (1993), “Reexamining English Only in the ESL Classroom”
Psychology (16 works) · Sociology (14 works) · Linguistics (11 works) · Philosophy (11 works) · Mathematics education (9 works) · Multilingual Education and Policy (9 works) · Pedagogy (9 works) · Second Language Learning and Teaching (9 works) · Political science (5 works) · History (4 works)