PEDAL welcomes adult English language learners of all proficiency levels to join our twice-weekly Zoom classes, at no cost. Classes meet for 1.5 hours every Wednesday and Friday, and there are four different class levels to choose from:
- Level 1 – Beginner (A1-A2)
- Level 2 – Intermediate (B1-B2)
- Level 3 – Advanced (B2-C1)
- Level 4 – High Advanced (C2+)
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Your PEDAL teachers are talented graduate students working on their master’s degrees in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) at the Penn Graduate School of Education. You want to improve your English skills, and they want to improve their teaching skills — it’s a win-win.
About Us
Practical English for Daily Living — known as PEDAL — was established in August 2012 to foster community engagement through education and to provide our talented teachers-in-training with authentic contexts to develop their teaching skills.
Originally for friends and family members of Penn students, faculty, and staff, PEDAL expanded to the Free Library of Philadelphia in 2014 to allow any adult English language learners in Philadelphia to join and improve their English for free. Since March 2020, we have been able to expand even further and we now invite adult English language learners from all over the world to join our free virtual classes.
PEDAL lessons focus on the types of communication that English learners encounter when navigating daily life in and around Philadelphia and/or in online spaces with other English speakers.
Resources
English learning resources [link to external Canvas page, Scholarly Commons, or other hosting site]
Teacher-training resources [link to external Canvas page, Scholarly Commons, or other hosting site]