EL/Civics Links
for students:
EL Civics For ESL Students, developed by Christina Niven, March 2006, welcomes students to learn EL Civics with pictures. This online, interactive Web site includes activities, lessons, a PowerPoint presentation, pictures, quizzes, a site for teachers, and recommended Links.
Resource Links:
http://www.cliniclegal.org/Refugee.html
The Catholic Legal Immigration Network, Inc., (CLINIC)
article, Technical Assistance to Promote Refugee Citizenship
and Civic Participation, provides information on improving services
to refugees in becoming
Articles about
Civics Participation:
http://www.nelrc.org/publications/cpandesol.html
The New England Literacy Resource Center (NELRC) article, Integrating Civic and Participation and Adult ESOL, proposes a process for building ESOL students' capacity for engaged and active citizenship through which EL/Civics classes serve as a venue for comprehending and critically examining policies that affect students' lives.
http://www.cal.org/caela/esl_resources/briefs/elcivics.html
CAELA, Center for Adult English Language Acquisition,
published in February 2006 a Brief, English Literacy and Civics Education. This
Brief describes not only ways to teach the subject, but also reflects on the
increasing importance of