Literary Arts Magazine Spring 2013 | Page 8

Orientation A and B What are the Orientation classes? he focus of Orientation A and B is to build basic literacy and fundamental vocabulary in English. Students in these levels typically have interpted formal schooling in their native countries and/or are learning to read in the Roman alphabet for the first time. Often they are newcomers who need an orientation to sounds and vocabulary in English before progressing on to Level One of English as a Second Language. T 8