Volume 2 in the Visions and Voices series.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"Issues, Challenges and Alternative in Teaching Adult ESL provides a fresh look at some of the major issues involved in teaching adult ESL and encourages practitioners to reassess some of the values that inform their teaching. The book covers fundamental issues such as principles in the ESL classroom, race and ethnicity,social class, and gender. Chapters also focus on the particular challenges of teaching literacy learners and workplace education. The author reminds teachers of the need to design their ESL program conscious of values and ethics, the spiritual dimension of education, and the vision of society towards which they teach. The goal in teaching ESL is for learners to develop their Voice, their power to have a say in the world through the medium of English." (Book Cover)

CONTENTS:

Section 1: Teaching and Learning

Chapter 1: Metaphors and Modalities

Chapter 2: Teaching the subject and the Subject

Chapter 3: Principles in the ESL Classroom

Chapter 4: Values and ethics: Towards a code of conduct

Chapter 5: The fourth dimension

Chapter 6: Participatory Education: A critical Alternative

Section 2: The Classroom and The Community

Chapter 7: Accountability and Evaluation

Chapter 8: ESL and the World of Work

Chapter 9: Literacy and ESL

Chapter 10: Race and Ethnicity in the ESL

Chapter 11: Social Class, Status and the ESL Classroom

Chapter 12: Gender and Sexual Preference in the ESL Classroom

Section 3: Being and Becoming Professional

Chapter 13: Professional Issues

Chapter 14: Working with Settlement Agencies

Chapter 15: Voices and Visions

Bibliography

Index