I'm teaching at a school where there is no offices for adjuncts to store books, etc, and I take public transportation at least one way to teach. This next quarter I'll be using three textbooks, so my bags will be heavier than normal. I'm thinking about buying a rolling briefcase to handle the weight of these books + papers, since my shoulders and neck are often not feeling so great at the end of the day. Does anyone have any suggestions for good models to purchase?

I can remember vaguely from a psychology class that memorizing and language processing is different for children learning 26 letters to words in English, versus children who had to memorize hundreds of characters in Mandarin, for example. Do you know anything about how memory works with ESL adult students whose first languages may use characters instead of letters to form words, and any specific challenges they may face when trying to learn things in an English speaking classroom?