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NATECLA and IATEFL ESOL Sig Webinar: Teaching ESOL learners with ‘basic literacy’ needs - where do I start?

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NATECLA and IATEFL ESOL Sig Webinar: Teaching ESOL learners with ‘basic literacy’ needs - where do I start?

This webinar is available to NATECLA and IATEFL ESOL Sig members only and FREE to access.

NATECLA, in colloboration with IATEFL's ESOL Special Interest Group are pleased to announce the following webinar - available for members only - with renowned UK ESOL specialist, Judy Kirsh: 

Teaching ESOL learners with ‘basic literacy’ needs - where do I start?
 
  • DATE: Thursday, 15th November 2018
  • TIME: 7 pm GMT (UK time)
  • ACCESS TO WEBINAR: Weblink and code will be emailed to all sign-up participants a few days before the event. 

About the webinar

Join us on 15th November when Judy Kirsh, an ESOL teacher-educator and consultant with a special interest in ESOL learners and basic literacy, will discuss some of the challenges of teaching learners who arrive in class with no or very little literacy in any language. These learners may never have finished primary education or may have missed out on education through poverty, war or environmental factors. They may be approaching the formal learning of reading and writing for the first time when they attend an ESOL class. In this webinar we will consider the questions: How do I teach reading to adults? What about handwriting? What is the language experience approach? We will learn about this approach and consider how you could adapt this to your own teaching context. 

About Judy Kirsh, M.Ed (ELT)

Judy Kirsh ESOL With more than 30 years’ experience in the field of English Language Teaching, Judy has worked as a teacher, teacher-trainer, external examiner, consultant and materials-writer, with a special interest in ESOL basic literacy. She has worked on many projects in the UK, including the development of ESOL CPD modules for the British Council ESOL Nexus project, ESOL prison resources for the Learning & Work Institute, and several EIF projects which supported the integration of third-country national women in the UK. Judy also contributed significantly to the development of Citizenship materials for ESOL learners, ESOL subject specialist modules, combined and blended learning ESOL/Literacy teaching qualifications and the Teaching Basic Literacy to ESOL learners course (now run by Learning Unlimited, London), to name but a few. Judy is a trustee and former co-chair of NATECLA, the professional association for ESOL practitioners in the UK, and a member of the ESOL Strategy Steering Group.

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  • Date(s): 15 November 2018 to 15 November 2018
  • Time: 19:00 BST
  • Price: FREE to members only
  • Location: Online webinar
  • Main contact: Jane Arstall
  • Telephone: 07875683254
  • Email: info@natecla.org.uk

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