ESL Strategies Webinar with Heidi Hyte

Learn practical ideas for using bottom-up strategies with your ESL/ESOL students!

Heidi Hyte, ESL instructor from Brigham Young University, hosted this Webinar. Download it now to learn:

• Practical approaches for teaching reading strategies to ESL/ESOL learners.
• Top-down, bottom-up, and interactive strategies to teaching reading.
• Rationale for the role of students’ phonemic awareness.
• Participants will be able to take away practical ideas of how to apply bottom-up strategies for teaching second language reading.

You may also download the PowerPoint presentation file for the Webinar here: Integrated Reading Strategies.

Heidi Hyte received her B.A. in linguistics and a master’s in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) from Brigham Young University (BYU). She has taught English as a Second or Foreign Language domestically and abroad. She worked as a full-time faculty member at BYU’s English Language Center (ELC). She currently teaches the Literacy Development in TESOL course at BYU. Heidi has conducted research projects in language learning, including studies that involve metacognitive language learning strategies and the effects of learner characteristics on language learning. Heidi has presented her research at conventions nationwide, including TESOL.