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Teaching ESL to Competencies: A Departure from a Traditional Curriculum for Adult Learners with Specific Needs. Adult Education Series #12. Refugee Education Guide.
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Center for Applied Linguistics, Washington, DC. Language and Orientation Resource Center. – 1982
Teaching English as a second language (ESL) to competencies requires that the instructional focus be on functional competencies and life-coping skills while developing the spoken and/or written English structures necessary to perform these skills. A step-by-step approach to develop and implement a competency-based approach to ESL for adults is…
Descriptors: Adult Programs, Adult Students, Basic Skills, Communicative Competence (Languages)