Connecting & Correcting

Welcome to the Portland Literacy Council workshop on connecting with adult beginning English learners and correcting beginning English learner errors.

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Presentation slides (link)

Connecting with learners

• Bates, J.  (2020). English Vocabulary Learning with Simplified Pictures. TESL-EJ, The Electronic Journal for English as a Second Language, 24(3). Retrieved October 22, 2022 from
  https://tesl-ej.org/wordpress/issues/volume24/ej95/ej95a12/

• Case, A. (2019). The Big List of Classroom Language with Gestures. Using English. Retrieved October 22, 2022, from https://www.usingenglish.com/teachers/articles/big-list-classroom-language-with-gestures.html

• Gakonga, J.  (2022). CELTA - Classroom Management - Giving brilliant instructions. ELT-Training.  [Video].
  https://youtu.be/-cjxrXbhErk

• Gakonga, J.  (2021). CELTA - Seven ways to check meaning (without asking 'do you understand?') ELT-Training. [Video]. https://youtu.be/NTdAtkLOxMo

• Minnesota Literacy Council. (2019). Teacher Training Toolkit: Checking Comprehension [Video]. https://youtu.be/a7w0mn_hWGI 

• Minnesota Literacy Council.  (2019). Teacher Training Toolkit: Giving Directions [Video]. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYp8yemaeb0 

• My self-paced micro-course (covering much of the same information as this workshop) https://tinyurl.com/ConnectingWithLearners

Correcting learner errors: General

• Gakonga, J. (2022.) Error corHirection in English teaching -
  Part 1 - Why correct? [Video]. YouTube. https://youtu.be/_xlQK9dhPqc
  Part 2 - What to correct [Video]. YouTube.  https://youtu.be/wPSmzTmKgWU
  Part 3 - How to correct [Video]. YouTube.  https://youtu.be/q2JCDrtC28M

• Hillyard, S. (2022, March 8). Let them speak! Tackling oral error correction.  Macmillan English. https://www.macmillanenglish.com/us/blog-resources/article/let-them-speak-tackling-oral-error-correction

• Kerr, P. (2020). Giving feedback to language learners.  Cambridge Papers in ELT series.  Cambridge University Press.  https://www.cambridge.org/gb/files/4415/8594/0876/Giving_Feedback_minipaper_ONLINE.pdf

• Kerr, P. (2017). Giving feedback on speaking.  Cambridge Papers in ELT series.  Cambridge University Press. https://www.cambridge.org/gb/files/4515/7488/5712/CambridgePapersinELT_FeedbackOnSpeaking_2018_ONLINE.pdf 

• My self-paced mini-course (covering much of the same information as this workshop, but with more practice) https://tinyurl.com/CorrectingLearnerErrors

Correcting learner errors: First language interference (general)

• Lieberman, M. (2015). Transfer in Second Language Acquisition [Video]. YouTube. https://youtu.be/UB18y2ZYBiY 

• Nicholls, D. (2003, October). Stringing Words Together: Language interference at sentence level.  MED Magazine, Issue 12, October 2003.
  https://macmillandictionaries.com/MED-Magazine/October2003/12-language-interference.htm 

• Stubbe Kester, E.  Difference or Disorder?  2014.  Bilinguistics, Inc. 

• Swan, M. and Smith, B.  Learner English.  2001.  Cambridge University Press. 

Correcting learner errors: First language interference (specific languages)

Arabic

• Bale, J. (2006). Arabic and English: Four hundred ways of describing a camel. MED Magazine, Issue 37, April 2006.  https://macmillandictionaries.com/MED-Magazine/June2006/39-Arabic-English-false-friends-print.htm 

Dutch

• Tops, G.A.J., Dekeyser, X., Devriendt, B., & Geukens, S. (2001). Dutch speakers. In Swan, M. & Smith, B. (Eds.). Learner English: A teacher's guide to interference and other problems (2nd ed., pp. 1-20).  Cambridge University Press.  https://assets.cambridge.org/97805217/79395/excerpt/9780521779395_excerpt.pdf 

Korean

• Bauman, N. (2006). A Catalogue of Errors Made by Korean Learners of English.  From the KOTESOL International Conference 2006.  https://onlinepedagogy.wordpress.com/2009/08/11/a-catalogue-of-errors-made-by-korean-learners-of-english/ 

Spanish

• Grant, A. (2024).  Link to my working notes on common areas of interference for speakers of Spanish.