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Helping new English speakers address their literacy needs

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The project partners were

  • Offaly county library service  

  • Laois and Offaly Education and Training Board  (LOETB)

About this project

This project created a  “third space” in libraries for  adult literacy and English for Speakers for Other Languages (ESOL) support. It combined reading for pleasure with language  development.

The project positioned the library  as  a  free, welcoming  access point for literacy materials,  technology,  and support.  

More about this project

The project ran for 8 weekly sessions in Tullamore library between  early November and late December 2025.

Sessions were informal, relaxed , conversation-based, and combined

  • reading,

  • discussions,

  • vocabulary-building,

  • word diaries,  and

  • signposting to further learning.  

The project will become a  template for  an ongoing group in Tullamore library and may be replicated in other branches.