ESL Tutor Training, Session 3

1. What should you do if you want to facilitate independent learning by your student using an ESL computer program or website?

Show your student how to use the program and make sure he/she knows how it works (and likes using it!)

If you want to make sure your student succeeds at using an ESL computer program independently, you should do all of these things.

Explanation

If you want to make sure your student succeeds at using an ESL computer program independently, you should do all of these things.

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2. How many tutoring rooms and computers are available for ESL students?

One room with a computer in it

Two rooms with computers in each

Three rooms, with a computer in one of them

Three rooms, with computers in two of them

There are also a few other options if you need a space to tutor and all three rooms are full. (See Lynne)

Explanation

There are also a few other options if you need a space to tutor and all three rooms are full. (See Lynne)

3. Which of the following is true about materials in the ESL Center collection (bookshelves)?

Anyone with a library card can check them out.

Only registered ESL Center students and tutors can check them out.

They are a reference-only collection--they cannot be checked out.

All books can be checked out, but DVDs and CDs must stay in the library.

Anyone with a library card can check them out, but they must be returned within 5 days.

Just like the other books in the library, ESL Center books can be checked out (by anyone with a library card) for 3 weeks, and renewed for several more weeks.

Explanation

Just like the other books in the library, ESL Center books can be checked out (by anyone with a library card) for 3 weeks, and renewed for several more weeks.

4. How could you find out the specific countries that our students come from?

Look on the ESL website

Ask a reference librarian

Read the Jones Library annual report

Look at the pins on the map on the ESL bulletin board

One way to find out the specific countries that our students come from is by looking at the pins on the map on the ESL bulletin board. The map on the bulletin board likely has pins representing the different countries that our students come from, providing a visual representation of their origins. By examining the pins on the map, we can easily identify the specific countries that our students come from.

Explanation

One way to find out the specific countries that our students come from is by looking at the pins on the map on the ESL bulletin board. The map on the bulletin board likely has pins representing the different countries that our students come from, providing a visual representation of their origins. By examining the pins on the map, we can easily identify the specific countries that our students come from.

5. If your intermediate-level student wants to study independently between tutoring sessions, but needs practice with oral (rather than written) skills, which 3 options are likely to be most effective? (Note: keep in mind the basic principles for language learning we talked about in the first session: limiting the amount of new information you present, presenting it in a careful sequence, making sure it is practical and relevant.)

Check out ESL DVDs and watch them at home

Use the software on the ESL computer

Listen to the radio or watch TV at home

Listening to radio or watching TV won't hurt your student, but it's not presented at an intermediate level, it goes by very quickly, and it may or may not provide content that is of much practical value to the student in terms of negotiating interactions in everyday life.

Explanation

Listening to radio or watching TV won't hurt your student, but it's not presented at an intermediate level, it goes by very quickly, and it may or may not provide content that is of much practical value to the student in terms of negotiating interactions in everyday life.

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6. How can your student get "consumable" materials--(that he/she can write in and keep)?

Go "shopping" in Lynne's discarded book collection

Order a copy of a book he/she likes directly from the publisher

Take worksheet pages from the cardboard boxes below the ESL book shelves

All of these are options for getting consumable materials. If your student wants to buy a book, I can show you the catalog that it came from, or you can just take it to a bookstore and they'll order it for you.

Additionally, on the shelves in the tutoring room next to my office, there are some freebees, including a weekly newspaper for adult literacy students called "New For You." Help yourself!

Explanation

All of these are options for getting consumable materials. If your student wants to buy a book, I can show you the catalog that it came from, or you can just take it to a bookstore and they'll order it for you.

Additionally, on the shelves in the tutoring room next to my office, there are some freebees, including a weekly newspaper for adult literacy students called "New For You." Help yourself!

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7. Which of the following materials can you check out from the ESL Center shelves?

Books that teach English skills related to workplace communication

Bilingual dictionaries

Novels and non-fiction in Chinese, Russian, and Spanish

Books on how to teach grammar, pronunciation, literacy, etc.

Computer programs for learning English

The library DOES have books in Chinese, Russian, Spanish, and several other languages, but not in the ESL Center. They're in the "foreign language" section.

There ARE computer programs for learning English in the ESL Computer room. They stay with the computer--they don't get check out.

Explanation

The library DOES have books in Chinese, Russian, Spanish, and several other languages, but not in the ESL Center. They're in the "foreign language" section.

There ARE computer programs for learning English in the ESL Computer room. They stay with the computer--they don't get check out.

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8. Which of the following materials can you check out from the ESL Center shelves?

Tapes/CDs for learning Spanish

Easy reading books with read-along tapes and CDs

DVDs for learning English at home

Test prep books for TOEFL, GED, and the US citizenship test

Books that a parent can read with a preschooler and explore English together

The library DOES have tapes and CDs for learning Spanish, but they're in the audiovisual stacks, not in ESL.

Explanation

The library DOES have tapes and CDs for learning Spanish, but they're in the audiovisual stacks, not in ESL.

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9. How is the room next Lynne's office different from the other tutoring rooms?

It has a window!

It is never locked.

There's a schedule on the door so you can sign up for a weekly time slot.

You have to pick up a key from the circulation desk to use that room.

The tutoring room next to Lynne's office is always open, so you don't need to pick up a key. The other 2 rooms stay locked, and you can't sign up for a time slot. You can ask for the key at the circulation desk, but it's first come first served.

Explanation

The tutoring room next to Lynne's office is always open, so you don't need to pick up a key. The other 2 rooms stay locked, and you can't sign up for a time slot. You can ask for the key at the circulation desk, but it's first come first served.

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10. Which of the following is true about the ESL computer?

Students must have their tutor with them when they use the computer

Students can use the computer independently

Unless you will be using the computer, you should not be using the computer room for tutoring

To get into the computer room, you need to pick up a key from the circulation desk

The computer has ESL study software on it, and has internet access

Students can use the computer independently, once they know how. You can tutor in the computer room, whether or not you will be using the computer. (But if another tutor needs the computer for a lesson, please allow him/her to switch rooms with you.)

Explanation

Students can use the computer independently, once they know how. You can tutor in the computer room, whether or not you will be using the computer. (But if another tutor needs the computer for a lesson, please allow him/her to switch rooms with you.)

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