Categories
ESL Program Ideas Resources

What Does your ESL Program Do for Christmas?

Season’s Greetings! We’ve received some wonderful ESL Christmas ideas. THANK YOU TO ALL THOSE WHO RESPONDED!! Make sure you read over all the great ideas to see how various churches are celebrating with their ESL learners. We are still in need of more ideas so hurry to send them in. We want to share even […]

Categories
Mission & Outreach Resources

Czeching-in

At Gathering III we had prayed for two of the participants, Len and Russ, who were going to be involved in an evangelistic English Weekend in the Czech Republic. Below is a brief report of that event: Thank you for your prayers regarding the evangelistic english family weekend November 16-19,2006. There were 180 people altogether […]

Categories
Mission & Outreach Resources

Connecting our Students with Other Christian Resources

Do you ever feel you are out of your depth and wish there was someone more qualified to advise one of your students on a particular matter? Click this link to go to the Christian Sourcebook site Christian Resources

Categories
Intercultural Compentencies Language Learning Resources

Introduction to the Socio-cultural Dimension of Language Learning

By Greg Thomson, Version .9, December 2006 LANGUAGE LEARNING IN THE FIRST DIMENSION For school-educated people around the world, understanding language learning from a socio-cultural viewpoint requires quite a change in thinking.[1] So get ready! In fact, I find the issues in this dimension of language learning much more difficult to grasp initially than those connected […]

Categories
ESL Program Ideas Resources

Two Ways to Live

From January to March at our church, Leaside Bible Chapel, we ran a course similar to Alpha called, “Christianity Explored“. It follows a similar format to Alpha but the discussions center around a walk through the Gospel of Mark. Rico Tice of All Souls Church in London, UK introduces the discussions on DVD. It’s an […]