The inventing of Americanism featured, through colonists since the early Seventeenth Century, the other stream of the English language. Scholarly works and publishers had foreseen much enrichment and adaptations both of the English dictionaries and into the daily usage of real lives. The Twenty-first Century witnesses the Internet with the emerging abundance of multimodal educational materials on platforms such as YouTube, thanks to which visual clues became infinitely accessible, although hardly polished, enhancing English instruction during those more “unconventional” moments of teaching time. In this study the author makes the leverage of the once-prevalent whole language approach to teaching English to the curriculum design of the American English language class for adult learners. With an understanding of modern genres as guidance, the author proposes several aspects of curriculum with an emphasis on multimodality, dialogic texts, as well as conventional choices of vocabulary in both personal and business settings. First, I derive a sequential set of topics in an original design of such a course for adult English learners, including evaluated materials such as writing assignments and field trips. I argue, based off observational and empirical hypotheses, that it is beneficial combining multimodality and multiliteracies with the whole language approach in foster for the contextualization of English learners, relatively and in parallel to a standard literacy acquisition lesson plan. Situational or in-situ learning is crucial in the aims for accelerating the English learning outcome for, say, immigrants and foreign national students.

Authors:
D. Tony Sün, Yeshiva University, United States

About the Presenter(s)
Mr. D. Tony Sün (Dachao Sun) is a current Adjunct Instructor and Student Assistant of Yeshiva University, United States of America. He studies as a master's student in mathematics at Yeshiva University since January 2024. Mr. Sün received his undergraduate and other master's degrees from Peiyang ('Tientsin,' 'Tianjin') University, Clemson University, Hult International Business School, and University of Pennsylvania respectively. He had previously worked on software documentation (or technical writing), software development and K-8 computer science education; I had tutored voluntarily students at different age levels (pre-K, secondary, and adults). Since recently, his leisure time is occasionally spared on some efforts in healthcare fundraising as well.

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