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Starting with the assumption that students need to develop two aspects of speaking skills, the casual and formal, our English conversation sessions start by dealing with survival skills and progress to more complex formal skills, in one hour sessions.
Subject areas included:
- Acculturation
- Social norms and customs in society
- College and university culture
- Problems faced in first year, second year, etc.
- Comparisons of education in US vs. the home countries
- Definitions of rubrics, reflective assignments, and others the students lack experience with
- Culture and conflict
- Conflict resolution
- Pronunciation workshops
- Board games and created material.
Methods used in addition to casual chatting:
- Speaking groups (to develop discourse skills and listening)
- Guest speakers and then a question and answer session (to ask and listen for specific information)
- Discussion groups with presentation (to develop formal speaking skills, focus on clarity and organization)
- Research and present (linking writing and note taking to speaking)
- Expert teacher (one student teaches others—half-an-hour activity, specific use of modals, taking direction)
- Watching a movie and expressing opinions
- Using news stories on controversial subjects to elicit ethical discussions (use of count and non-count nouns in abstract vocabulary—this is a high error area for ESL learners)
- Linking students up with English speakers as models of idioms and cross-cultural understanding.
Contact
For additional information, please contact:
The Learning Center
Earle Hall, Lower Level
(entrance across from the Science Building)
p - 516.877.3200
e - learningcenter@adelphi.edu
Summer 2008 Hours
Monday – Thursday:
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8:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.
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Friday:
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9 a.m. – 5 p.m. |
This page last modified on February 13, 2008.
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