Hi Steve,

I've missed the URL for your site;  could you repost?  Thanks!

Andrea:)


On Sep 26, 2008, at 5:24 PM, Steve Kaufmann wrote:


> He might also check out iTunes University, MIT and other sources of  

> university courses available for download in various media forms.  

> If he likes the voice of the narrator and is interested in the  

> content, comprehension really improves quite quickly with intensive  

> listening. By the way I meant having students or even professors  

> and students record themselves in discussion and making this  

> available with transcript to foreign students like your Chinese  

> student.

>

> If you get content like that going please let me know. We can use  

> it. Your student is also welcome to all the English content we have  

> on our site (well over 2,000 items with audio and text).

>

> Steve

>

> On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 2:16 PM, Bonnie Odiorne  

> <bonniesophia at sbcglobal.net> wrote:

> Thanks, Steve: good thought. I'll ask him if he has one of thos  

> digital stick recorders. These Chinese students are so tuned into  

> tech that he thought he could text my office phone...

> Bonnie

>

> --- On Fri, 9/26/08, Steve Kaufmann <steve at thelinguist.com> wrote:

> From: Steve Kaufmann <steve at thelinguist.com>

> Subject: [ProfessionalDevelopment 2558] Re: The "Decoding" of  

> words, sentences, and paragraphs

> To: "The Adult Literacy Professional Development Discussion List"  

> <professionaldevelopment at nifl.gov>

> Date: Friday, September 26, 2008, 1:43 PM

>

> Of course the situation of someone like this Chinese student is  

> different. I was referring to students at an earlier stage of  

> learning a language. For your student I would recommend that he  

> spend a lot of time listening to recordings of his lectures or  

> recordings of material on related subjects. Even asking native  

> speakers fellow students to record their own essays or writing, or  

> even to talk to each other in these subjects would help. This  

> student then needs to spend a lot of time listening. Listening  

> creates the rhythm that often brings the meaning alive. He also  

> probably needs to improve his vocabulary of words and phrases. He  

> needs to force feed himself the exposure that he has not had.

>

> On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 10:34 AM, Bonnie Odiorne  

> <bonniesophia at sbcglobal.net> wrote:

> What you say works for most types of reading, but not academic-- 

> maybe even literary--reading,  where the ways the words connect are  

> crucial, and an overall idea may not be sufficient. I have a  

> Chinese student now under considerable stress because he cannot  

> make the jump quickly enough to academic language to understand the  

> textbook material, let alone the professor. Any tutoring he gets  

> from me in reading strategies, finding the important concepts, and  

> explaining the meaning of the words in paraphrase, giving the  

> pronunciation in the hope that when his professor uses it he can  

> understand it, doesn't really seem to help the fundamental problem:  

> he needs more time to assimilate the language. As someone has said,  

> depending on sight words, context clues et al. to "guess" the most  

> likely meaning of a sentence or paragraph can only take one so far,  

> and some of that misperception of connection, grammar and syntax  

> can be crucial to meaning. But tell that to the young man who's  

> having nightmares, and is so tired he can barely stay awake.

> Bonnie Odiorne, Ph.D.

> Director, Writing Center, Adjunct Professor

> Post University, Waterbury, CT

> bonnisophia at sbcglobal.net

>

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