Re: ESL students & non-tutorial resources

[96BANDY@wmich.edu]

Neal-
	I share your (and others) hesitancy about the *book* on tutoring.  I
have always been a practical strategy sort of guy myself and frequently
become frstrated with theory when it fails to suggest immediate strategies. 
Some of the sites available on the web are, however, not simply drill sites. 
There are websites in English geared towards ESl/EFL students world wide. 
These seem to be places where students can go hang out in an English
environment and read stuff interesting to them.  I have never had any doubts
about recommending these sites to ESL students, but I did want to find out
what current feeling was on drills and non-*book* appproaches to tutoring
ESL.  And there have been some wonderfully helpful responses.

	By the way, I'm sure some discussion of this is in what you all are
referring to as the *archives*.  I printed out something pertaining to that
when I began to lurk but couldn't make sense of it.  Can somebody send me an
explanation off list or other-wise explaining this feature in the layman's
terms?  Who would that be?  Lady?  A. Kotsikonas?  I just want to avoid a
flood of responses, my mail accounts seem to be continually on the verge of
exceeding my alotted disk space.

Thanks All, again-

James Bandy, GA
96bandy@wmich.edu
WMU Writing Center
Western Michigan University