Meeting Diverse Needs in the Adult ESL Classroom

This portfolio was written for the Master of Second Language Teaching (MSLT) program. It reflects the author\u27s beliefs on effective methods for teaching English as a second language (ESL) to adult learners. It includes the author\u27s teaching philosophy, which focuses on communicative language teaching, creating an encouraging classroom environment, and providing meaningful instruction. The teaching philosophy is followed by four artifacts. First, the culture artifact is a review of complimenting behavior and how to teach pragmatics to language students. Second, the literacy artifact is a study of effective strategies for improving the writing skills of ESL learners. Third, the language artifact discusses wether listening or reading activities are better tools for teaching vocabulary. After the language artifact is an additional teacher artifact that explains the importance of teacher empathy. Finally, the annotated bibliographies provide an outline of the author\u27s study and research throughout the MSLT program