This video talks about the current debate facing ESL education whether ESL students be completely immersed in full-English classrooms, or whether they should they targeted support in learning the English language?
Addressing Equity Concerns for English Learners
This webinar is from the National Center on Immigrant Integration Policies and discusses potential post-pandemic issues for programs and supports for EL students. One support is allowing ELs to take annual state standardized tests in their native language. “Federal law requires ELs to be given accommodations to ensure that their scores on standardized tests accurately reflect what they know in reading, math, and other subjects. The law also encourages—but does not require—states to offer native language assessments as one type of accommodation. Research shows that such assessments are effective in improving test scores.”
Measuring English Language Development
This article provides a snapshot of the English Language Development assessment approach with increased use of formative assessments and a balanced classroom-based assessment.
Systemic Functional Linguistics
Systemic Functional Linguistics sees language in terms of its functions to understand the environment (field), communicate with the people in it (tenor) and express in a verbal or written form (mode).
Valuing Linguistic Diversity
By valuing students’ linguistic diversity we as educators help them not only with language learning, but also with supporting the discovery of their identity as part of the larger community. Teachers can use language celebrations (McCreight, 2013) to build the connection between the students and their community.
Teaching and Learning Cycle
The Teaching and Learning Cycle is a model that integrates language learning with academic learning.
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