What is an ESL Conversation Club?

ESL Conversation Clubs (ESLCC) provide a casual, relaxed environment for language learners to use English and practice conversation skills. ESL students often appreciate additional opportunities to use English outside of classes.

A typical ESLCC:

• meets once a week,
• for an hour or an hour and a half,
  
• and has anywhere from 2 to 15 attendants.
  

Welcome to this blog.

Since I started working as a public librarian in 2006, I've had the pleasure of working with English language learners - just by listening to them talk, in a weekly ESL Conversation Club. Although various ESL resources abound online, I wanted to add my own activities that I've developed, and also share insights and resources that other librarians at MPOE have kindly shared with me.
Also, I will be presenting such insights at the upcoming CLA Conference in November, at a workshop entitled "ESL Conversation Clubs @ Your Library". To prepare, I conducted a survey of librarians at MPOW and will post select responses on this blog. Note that the workshop takes place on Monday morning at 8 AM, though, so if you can't make it - which is completely understandable - I mean, even for morning-people it's early - you can just read this blog.