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From http://blog.tesol.org

Robert Sheppard writes, “Adult learners, especially immigrants who have various competing priorities which may take precedence over English, need to see an immediate application for their new language. In many contexts, English can be a luxury; for adult immigrants, it cannot be. As teachers, we must approach it with an urgency and immediacy that might be unusual in, say, a business EFL program. A student-driven environmental/authentic text time is one way to add relevance, immediacy, and authenticity to your adult English classes.”

Read on for how to implement this idea: http://blog.tesol.org/authentic-text-time-in-adult-ed/