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Adult ESL: Beginner (CSWE I) series

A listing of resources available from the TESOL Joint Use Library.

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Beginner Readers, by Paula Withers. Brisbane 2006

A series of very low level readers by local ESL teacher. Each kit contains: reader, student workbook, teacher's resource book, CD containing pdf versions of the booklets.

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English have a go videos, ABC, 1996

Series of 13 videos, 2 episodes per video. Books available separately.

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English on your own, Milpera Special School, Brisbane, 1985

Series of 5 shelf kits - each kit contains student book + teacher's book + cassettes. Some kits have bilingual student notes in Chinese, Spanish and/or Vietnamese.

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Get Wise, Macquarie University, Sydney: AMEP Research Centre, 2007

This series provides youth students in the AMEP with stimulating, topic-based supplementary classroom material relevant to their needs and interests. The modules are designed to assist learners with high oracy, but low literacy, in English and minimal literacy in their home language at CSWE I level.

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Just series - Elementary level, Marshall Cavendish, London, 2007

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Learning English together, Immigrant Education Services, Brisbane 1990

Each kit contains book + cassette

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Oxford Basics, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1999-2005

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Start to Read series, NSW AMES, Surry Hills, 2006-

Each kit contains: reader, flash cards, sentence strips, A4 picture set, blackline masters of simple exercises.

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Starters dialogues: dialogues for beginning ESL students, Department of Education, Qld, Brisbane, 1995

Bilingual versions of this popular beginner resource. Each kit contains bilingual book + audiocassette (English only)

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Step-by-step, WA AMES, Perth, 1995

Series of 5 hanging kits. Each kit contains book + cassette. Also available in bilingual version, Croatian/English.

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Sugarbag on Damper Publications, Brisbane

Excellent resources by local Brisbane teacher.

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Vocabulary Builders, NSW AMES

This is a series of interactive CD-ROMs and accompanying workbooks for beginner learners, especially those with low literacy skills. They enable learners to build vocabulary through interactivities with images, words and audio.
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Last updated: 5 March 2009

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