Irene E. Schoenberg Communicative Grammar for Multi Level English Language Learners, The New School

This interactive session sponsored by the English Language Studies Department at The New School and Pearson Education will allow teachers to implement these techniques immediately. English language learning is so multifaceted that experts describe a heterogeneous language class as a class with more than one student. Ability, needs, background, age, and psychological makeup are just some of the variables among learners. Preparing different tasks for students at different levels is not always feasible, but learning questioning techniques and providing openended tasks will allow more students to become actively involved in the class. In this session the presenter will demonstrate 10 ways that teachers can include multilevel learners simultaneously in a communicative grammar class. Irene E. Schoenberg has taught English language learners and trained teachers for more than two decades at New York s Hunter College, The New School, and Col