ESL with Advanced High School Students

This article is an outgrowth of a successful experience with advanced ESL students in an inner-city high school. Utilizing available resources, role playing and investigation, students are guided to work independently, discovering and pursuing their own dreams, ideas and goals, becoming aware of their own ability to control, at least in part, their everyday environment and their futures. Through a notional-functional process, ESL becomes a vehicle not only for them but about them. Once the students can function reasonably well in the target language, they obviously have to be able to make that language work for them. High School (or any ESL learning situation) may be their last chance, or the beginning of a new chance: thus the units on career orientation, consumer protection, and housing as they relate directly to the students. The article includes curricular guidelines, decision-making and problemsolving techniques, dealing with the unexpected, as well as a lexicon governing each discipline. The fruitful results warrant further investigation of this project

Linguistics · Mathematics education · Pedagogy · Sociology · Multilingual Education and Policy · Philosophy · Psychology · Second Language Learning and Teaching

• Communication Skills for the Adult ESL Student

  Joan Friedenberg, Joan E Friedenberg et al.•TESOL Quarterly•1981

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