... PRACTICES AND STANDARDS FOR TEACHING SPEAKING TO ADULT ESOL LEARNERS This section briefl y reviews what is known about successful teaching of speaking skills and the development of standards ... interaction to learn when and how to use these forms appropriately to make and deny requests, issue warnings, give advice, and so on. For many adult ESOL learners, opportunities for interaction with ... observation forms, and learners logs) hold promise as program-based means for validly assessing the speaking skills of adult ESOL learners (Weinstein, 2001). However, as Weinstein (2001) notes, “Unfor-tunately,...