A slideshow presented at the annual conference of New York State Teachers of English as a Second Language, New York, 2005

2. Introduction: Beginning Adult ESL Literacy Learners

6. From The Learner’s Point of View

12. What’s a teacher to do?

13. THE LANGUAGE EXPERIENCE APPROACH TO READING

15. LEA Extension One Cloze

16. LEA Extension Two Scrambled Sentences

17. Underlying Theory

18. Schema Theory in a Clamshell

19. SCHEMA (plural: schemata) An abstract structure representing concepts stored in memory

21. Multiliteracy Theory in a Nutshell

22. Derives from researchers’ (Gee, Cope, Kalantzis, Street) efforts to move away a “Great Divide” explanation of orality and literacy A view of literacy that focuses on social practices and literacy events There is not just one kind of literacy.

23. Multiliteracy practitioners identify four steps in mulitiliteracy pedagogy: 1 . situated practice 2. overt instruction 3. critical framing 4. transformation of practice

24. Theory-Based “Práctica”

26. En nuestros países nuestros padres trabajan sembrando en la tierra o en la ciudad. Cultivando la siembra para alimentar a la familia. La llegada a Nueva York fue dura. Encontramos un clima nuevo. Encontramos problemas con el inglés y el trabajo. Estamos superando para seguir adelante. Todos luchamos por la familia escribiendo y aprendiendo en la clase. In our countries, our parents worked on the land or in the city. Taking care of the planting to feed their families. Arriving in New York was hard. We encountered a new climate.We encountered problems with English and work. We’re getting ahead. We’re all struggling for our families, writing and learning in class.

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