Teaching Adult Literacy

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This paper explains the present national standards in the UK for adult literacy such as being confident and capable when speaking, listening, reading and writing. The author relates that, in 2010, functional skills based on real life experiences, particularly as relative to work based environments will become the new qualification. From the perspective of the author's own experiences, the paper details the teaching of basic skills for English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) adult students and the ability of ESOL teachers to also teach functional skills.

From the Paper:

"SfL or basic skills qualifications are aimed at helping learners to build their English, maths or computer skills, whereas key skills are aimed at development of skills to help in work and life in general. As a learner myself, working towards an ITT qualification, I have no previous experience of summative assessment of speaking skills because most of the assessments that I have been involved in through the delivery of literacy to English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) learners were formative."

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