Goooood Morning and Happy Friday from Literacy Connexus everyone. I hope that you all had a wonderful Easter and this blog post finds you: happy, healthy, and in good faith.
As you all know, Literacy Connexus is a faith based organization. That being said, we work with many ESL ministries across the state of Texas. Today, I wanted to share a little something for those ESL ministries, teachers, and volunteers looking to incorporate a little faith into their ESL classrooms.
Lynn Stapleton created English for Christian Studies, a great resource for intermediate and advanced ESL students who are interested in incorporating their faith into their English language learning, and I just had to share it with you all.
Lynn is an English language instruction consultant who began teaching English in the Philippines in 1995.
Her website includes EFL workbooks, vocabulary building, men and women history of the church, and developing reading skills using the Bible.
EFL Workbooks These workbooks are designed for learners of English who need to improve their reading comprehension in order to perform effectively in Bible colleges and seminaries that require extensive reading in English. The intention is not to teach English, but to supplement classroom instruction with biblically contextualized passages and exercises. Vocabulary Building for Biblical Studies aims to help students with an intermediate level of English expand their vocabulary for the specific purpose of reading the New International Version of the Bible and biblical studies literature written in English.
Men and Women in the History of the Church is a pre-intermediate primer that provides supplemental reading to classroom English instruction.
Developing Reading Skills is a two-part curriculum based on the books of Jonah and Ruth and designed for students with a pre-intermediate level of English proficiency. Each curriculum includes a Student’s Workbook and a Teacher’s Book. The focus is on understanding and using a variety of reading strategies, particularly observation-interpretation-application.
Lynn Stapleton, an English language instruction consultant with LeaDev-Langham and author of the site
To check out Lynn’s site, click the link here: Resources for ESL Biblical Studies Students.
Until next time, blessings and happy teaching!