A survey of the teaching of ESOL (English for Speakers of Other Languages) that questions its practices, policies, and cultural assumptions. Political controversies and economic constraints mean that ESOL, the teaching of English in English speaking countries, is constantly in the news. This book gives you an up to date, broad understanding of ESOL and how it is taught and learnt. It also places ESOL in its wider social, political, and economic contexts and addresses many of the challenges teachers and learners currently face.
1. ESOL in the world
2. A world of difference : being an adult ESOL learner
3. The challenges of ESOL practice
4. The content of ESOL lessons
5. Oral communication
6. ESOL, literacy, and literacies
7. ESOL and electronic literacy practices
8. Learning about teaching
- Appendix
- Bibliography
- Index