Library Assignments and Resources for ESL Students
ESL Collections at the Campus Libraries
Provided below are examples of assignments ESL students have done in the library. The exercises and handouts used during library instruction are included. The exercises and handouts were developed by librarians, working collaboratively with ESL instructors, in response to specific assignments. Feel free to download these exercises and handouts, and adapt them to suit your own classes' needs.
ESL 002
Class assignment (AL): Students need to find information about a famous person, a state, or a country.
Class assignments (LO): Include Biographies, Inventions, Movie Presentations, and Tourist Attractions
ESL 005/006
Class assignment (AL): Students need to find background information related to the novel they are reading.
Class assignments (LO): Include Finding and analyzing an article from a periodical (005) and Using the catalog, online indexes, and Writing Center web page (006)
ESL 007
Class assignment (AL): Students need to find information about a variety of topics for their informational speeches.
Class assignment (LO): Research checklist for group presentation
ESL 012
Class assignment (LO): ESL Express: Library card, Magazines, Newspapers, Writing Center, & Dave's ESL Cafe
ESL Collections at the Campus Libraries
Alexandria Campus Library ESL Collection
Annandale Campus Library ESL Video Collection
Loudoun Campus Library ESL Collection
Manassas Campus Library ESL Video Collection
Copyright
Northern Virginia Community College
Created by Anne Anderson. Last updated
July 2009.