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Welcome to this Learning Adventure!
If you are an English Second Language (ESL) teacher on a
shoestring budget who wants to bring more practical listening
practice to your students, this site can help you.
What is a Real Life Language Learning Activity
Anyway?
This project deals with developing Real-Life Language Learning
Activities (ReLLLAs) for adult English as a second language
(ESL) students. This unit will involve the creation and use of
ReLLLAs, which can be described as an audio segment of some
real-life situation that is applicable to an individual
student. It could also be a short article or an
interesting story. It is chosen or created by the teacher and is
introduced in class. The adult ESL student will listen to this
at home in a regular CD player and will have some related task
to perform. Teacher will follow-up on this assignment in
the following class. An additional benefit of this unit is
the ability to include the teaching of local dialect and
expressions in the language learning activities.
What should I do next?
For Individual Study - First, download and print the
Self-Study Task Chart.
  (If you don't have Word® or
Adobe Reader®, click
here).
Then go to Project Overview and
get started. If you do not wish to fill out
the task chart, go directly to the tutorial and work your way
through the entire program. It will take you to the above
links in a recommended order, you just won't have an easy way of
keeping track of your progress.
For Group Workshops - If you are interested in using this site to
facilitate a workshop and guide other
teachers in the complete process of creating and using Real Life
Language Learning Activities (ReLLLAs), go to the
User's Guide
first. (If you don't have Word®
or Adobe Reader®,
click here)
For Review and Refresher - If you have already taken the course, either in a
face-to-face workshop or via this online instruction, feel free
to browse the collection, visit the links to discover some new
ones, skim through the tutorial to find some job aids, or share
this site with a colleague.
I am delighted that you are here and hope your experience is
an enriching one. Feel free to contact me with any
questions or comments.
Project Coordinator and Creator -
Dawn
Saint at saintd@nacc.edu - ESL/Bilingual Local/Regional Resource Instructor
with Northeast Alabama Adult Education - (256) 638-2957
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