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Enhancing all language skills in an ESL/FL classroom throughout
a semester under normal conditions is generally a slow going and often a
painful process. "Normal conditions" can be thought of as
students who have been competently level-tested into elementary, mid or
higher level ESL/FL students. However even under these ideal conditions, they
are likely to see classroom efforts as being neither non-comprehensive nor completely
significant to their lives.
In a multilevel ESL class, instructors are confronted with a
never ending challenge to use a variety of materials, activities, and
techniques to hold on to the interest of the multiplicity of levels in the
classroom. To make sure of a measure of accomplishment for all learners in
the multilevel classroom, instructors must determine what each learner desires
or needs to learn. To that end, the students must play a significant role in the classroom
managerial challenge.
One of the most attractive possibilities is the use of Information
and Communication Technologies to help the students learn both autonomously
and collectively.
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