ESOL
Adult Goal 8: Learners will identify and use language acquisition strategies to comprehend and produce English.

OBJECTIVES EXAMPLES
Objective A: Learners will become conscious of strategies, i.e., auditory, visual, kinesthetic, etc. they use, evaluate them, and try out new strategies.
  • Brainstorm with students how they remember new words.
  • List strategies.
  • Discuss what strategies work best for each of them, evaluate what happened.
  • Learners choose new strategies to try out, i.e., draw/act out a word, make own flashcards, seek out native speakers, etc.
  • Use mnemonic devices, i.e., “Her first nurse works early” to learn identical vowel sounds with different letter combinations.
  • Use technology and media such as radio, telephone, television, computers, closed-caption TV in home, school, workplace, and community to learn more English.

Back Table of Contents Next