The Stories of My Life: A Task-Based, Oral Narrative Lesson for Employment Purposes for Learners with Refugee Backgrounds

Abstract

This classroom practice oriented article provides the instructional framework and procedures for one of the sample field-tested lessons from the oral narrative units derived from the Syrian Learners of English for Employment in Canada (SLEEC) project (Huang, 2021, 2022). This sharing is intended to provide a ready-to-use lesson plan and materials for implementation in the classroom, as well as to inform the work of practitioners supporting learners with refugee experiences.

Keywords

• task-based instruction
• oral narratives
• english as an additional language
• learners with refugee backgrounds
• lesson plan
• english for employment purposes