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WELCOME TO CHUCK'S ONLINE ESL ASSIGNMENTS!The picture on the right shows a section of the original Berlin wall.
It is on display on the campus of Honolulu Community College. |
Online reading and writing assignments for Chuck's ESL classes at Honolulu Community College, Honolulu, Hawaii, are posted at this site. These assignments are based on material which is found on the World Wide Web. These are a number of reasons to use these assignments to do online study.
One purpose for these assignments is to help students learn specific information about a topic and to provide practical experience in using that information. An example of that is learning about various search engines on the Web while getting practice in using them.
Another purpose is to provide a lot of independent reading with students having full responsibility for understanding the reading materials.
Still another purpose is to provide students with practice in writing short, one-paragraph summaries of online news stories.
An underlying purpose here is to give a lot of practical experience in using the World Wide Web for online study. Having positive online learning experiences builds up confidence and encourages people to study even more online.
Additionally, the more time spent online, the more skillful people become in using browser software to navigate the Web.
As people become more confident and skillful in navigating the Web, the more likely they are to go online on their own to find information that they need.
The Web is becoming everyone's private library, and it has become the main source of information for many people. It is becoming the singular most useful tool that a person has. The sooner everyone becomes totally at home on the Web, the better off everyone will be.
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THE INSTRUCTOR'S BACKGROUND Chuck Whitley has a Bachelor's degree in education (Henderson State Teachers College, Arkadelphia, Arkansas) and a Master's Degree in Teaching English as a Second Language (University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, Hawaii). He is the co-author of a number of textbooks that teach English as a Second Language. He has extensive teaching experience in the teaching of English as a Second Language. In the Philippines he lived and worked as a Peace Corps Volunteer and there he taught English in Valencia, Bohol. He also lived in Japan as a private citizen and taught English in the city of Kyoto. He has additional teaching experience in Hawaii at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, at Chaminade University, and here at Honolulu Community College, where he has been a full-time ESL instructor since the fall of 1992. Chuck's first goal for all of his classes is to strengthen students' general levels of English in reading, writing, listening, and speaking. Chuck's other goals are to help students become aware of computers and their importance in our lives, to help students become computer literate, and to encourage further development of whatever computer skills students bring to class.
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This site was constructed and launched, privately and independently, in the summer of 2002
by Chuck Whitley, ESL Instructor,
Honolulu Community College, Honolulu, Hawaii.
Date of last update and/or revision: August 20, 2006.
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