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Download full textWong, Ping; Duff, Patricia; Early, Margaret – TESL Canada Journal, 2001
Explores the experiences of immigrants who completed a health care aide training program that combined occupational skills and English-as-a-Second-Language training. Focus was on the employment barriers and personal benefits associated with program completion. Findings revealed participation in training had a major impact on the employment,…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Employment Opportunities, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries
Early, Margaret; Tang, Gloria M. – TESL Canada Journal, 1991
Proposes the use of key visuals as a technique to prepare students to read content text. Based on a specific language and content conceptual framework, the use of clear visuals as a prereading strategy acknowledges the role of schema theory in the reading process. (34 references) (JL)
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Content Area Reading, English (Second Language), Prior Learning
Early, Margaret – TESL Canada Journal, 1990
Provides an overview of a writing and reading procedure that can be used to teach beginning English-as-a-Second-Language students (K-12) subject matter knowledge and expository paragraph structure. (Author/CB)
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Content Area Writing, Elementary Secondary Education, English (Second Language)
Early, Margaret – TESL Canada Journal, 1989
Investigates the progress and achievement of primary (N=20) and secondary (N=20) school English-as-a-Second-Language students in a large urban school district in Western Canada. Results suggest that assumptions that students can achieve language proficiency in a maximum of three years are unrealistic. (Author/CB)
Descriptors: Communicative Competence (Languages), Elementary Secondary Education, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries
