Jeffrey Hillesland

English 1102-073

Jan Rieman

March 25 2011

Annotated Bibliography

Curtin, Ellen. "Instructional Styles Used by Regular Classroom Teachers While Teaching

Recently Mainstreamed ESL Students: Six Urban Middle School Teachers in Texas Share

Their Experiences and Perceptions." Multicultural Education 12.4 (2005): 36-42.

Education Research Complete. EBSCO. Web. 25 Mar. 2011.

After trying to conduct some further research of Ellen Curtin, I have come up with almost

nothing, I had a hard time finding a profile on her, however I did find other related topics that she

had written. This article talks about how teachers who did more interactive things while teaching

ESL students had higher success rates with them. This just furthers my thoughts that through

interaction a person can learn another language. This is very related to the article by Lincoln,

mostly because it shows that interaction works just as well. The intended audience of this article

is student and new teachers so they can learn how to help any ESL student that they may have.

Daluyin, Kevin. Personal Interview. 18 March. 2011.

Kevin who is also my roommate moved to California when he was five from the Philippines, had

a totally different experience when he started school. He started his classes in elementary school,

and stopped when he left to go to middle school. He talked about how he was one of the students

who preferred to learn in class and not go talk to other kids which was part of his program. He

talked about how it was hard for him to go talk to people he didn't know because he was

concerned that he would not understand anything that was being talked about. But once he
became more proficient in english he was more comfortable talking to others which furthered his

learning. He says overall his experience was almost a split learning experience even though he

favored the in class learning. This helps provide another view point of the learning process that

supports the teaching styles incorporated in ESL programs.

Leng, Billy. Personal Interview. 20 March. 2011.

Billy moved to Alabama when he was seven years old from Cambodia, he went through ESL

classes in elementary school, and some of middle school. I asked him about his experiences in

the class and what helped him the most when he went through the process. He said that almost

everything that he went through helped him learn to speak proper english, talking to him today

you would have thought he was born and raised here. However; he did say that the best way he

learned was from talking to other people, he attributes this to being such an outgoing person. He

said it helped him in multiple ways, first it helped him to meet new people, and it taught him

how most people talk and what words people most commonly used. This will help me present

the view point that I had that people learn through everyday interactions and it still supports the

ESL learning system.

Lincoln, Felicia, and Barbara Rademacher. "Learning Styles of ESL Students in Community

Colleges." Community College Journal of Research & Practice 30.5/6 (2006): 485.

MasterFILE Premier. EBSCO. Web. 25 Mar. 2011.

I have chosen this source due to many reasons I believe that the biggest one is that it shows a

new possibility to my paper. The research that has been provided leads toward the assumption

that its not so much a personal choice of how you learn but a gender choice. The research found

that women learned through a auditory and multimodal sense and males did more note taking.

Felicia Lincoln is a professor at the University of Arkansas, she has a Ph.D and teaches in ESL
areas. I believe the intended audience of this article to be other teachers, so they can learn new

and better teaching methods.