TITLE Adult ESL Instruction: A Challenge and a Pleasure. An Orientation Guide for Adult ESL Teachers.

This guide, written in narrative format by several adult English as a second language (ESL) experts, presents an overview of ESL, instruction. The manual is organized in six sections. The first section, an introduction to ESL, contains definitions, describes adult ESL students, and provides tips for new ESL teachers. The second section sketches a brief history of ESL teaching in the United States, summarizing such methods as the grammar approach, the audiolingual method, the communicative approach, the natural approach, and the direct method. The third section surveys the content and context of ESL, providing information on program categories and professional resources (organizations, centers, curriculum guides, contact persons, ERIC Clearinghouse on Languages and Linguistics, publishers, and professional reading). Assessment is the subject of the fourth section, which includes information on th