OCTAE’s Enhancing Access for Refugees and New Americans project has released three new spotlights this fall, each focusing on highlighting strategies for serving English learners through Integrated English Literacy and Civics Education (IELCE), English language acquisition, and/or Integrated Education and Training (IET) programming. These three spotlights include:
- Using Multilingual Approaches to Support English Language Acquisition – This spotlight explores the use of multilingual approaches for the purpose of supporting English language acquisition. A multilingual approach offers instructional strategies to supplement instruction in English and support English language acquisition. Multilingual approaches allow learners to access their full linguistic repertoire for the purposes of accelerating their English proficiency. The spotlight is not intended as policy guidance.
- Civics in the Adult Education Classroom – IELCE activities must include instruction on the rights and responsibilities of citizenship and civic participation. This spotlight describes and provides examples of how civics content and activities can be integrated and contextualized into IELCE instruction in different ways. It also clarifies the importance of not duplicating services funding under other funding sources, such as preparation for the U.S. citizenship exam.
- Supporting the Economic Integration of Adult Learners with Emerging Literacy Skills - This spotlight explores instructional approaches and resources to support the economic integration of learners with emerging literacy, who may have limited or interrupted formal schooling in their native countries.
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