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Learners' Lives as Curriculum: Six Journeys to Immigrant Literacy
Weinstein, Gail
Delta Systems, 1999

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ISBN 1-887744-21-5; $16.95

This 88-page guide outlines a model for creating curricula that are truly based on the lives of the learners. It explains how to use directed listening to elicit a learner-generated text, and then how to transform the text into lessons and eventually thematic units. Six examples of this process are described by teachers who used the method to develop curricula in this way. Some of the examples are of health-related curricula, including one class that developed a breast cancer thematic unit by working with the Breast Cancer Oral History Project. It tells how the students learned to research a health topic in their community and then how to take action for their own health. There are also examples of the lessons that were developed to learn English in the context of the theme. There is a video available for $29.95 showing classes and programs in action.

KEYWORDS: Cross-cultural Communication, ESOL, Immigrants, Literacy Education, Women's Health

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