Secondary ESOL
Professional Readings: Course Design
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- 30 Years of TEFL/TESL: A Personal Reflection
2002 article from Jack Richards.
- Characteristics of Culturally Relevant Classrooms
A summary from NCREL.
- Criteria for Evaluating Multicultural Materials
A summary from NCREL.
- Culturally Responsive Instruction: Promoting Literacy in Secondary Content Areas
Patricia Schmidt demonstrates how secondary teachers can makes connections with students' backgrounds, interests, and experiences to make learning meaningful (2005).
- SIOP: Making Content Comprehensible for ELLs
The Sheltered Instruction Observation Protocol (SIOP) models the steps in lesson planning that make content material comprehensible to English language learners. Summary of work by Echevarria, Vogt and Short on EverythingESL.
- Aspects of Task-Based Syllabus Design
David Nunan discusses some of the elements that a syllabus designer needs to take into consideration.
- Bloom's Revised Taxonomy
Bloom's Taxonomy is a useful way to plan units of work that incorporate high level thinking skills. This site includes: a colour poster introducing the revised taxonomy, a planning framework to design learning activities that foster all levels of thinking and Investigate a Book the Blooming-Smarts Way, a matrix for a reading programme.
- Centre for Canadian Language Benchmarks
Canadian standards that describes a learner’s ability to communicate in English through speaking, listening, reading and writing.
- Content Based ESL Curriculum and Academic Language Proficiency
2004 article from The Internet TESL Journal.
- CREDE - Program Alternatives for Linguistically Diverse Students
This report is intended as a guide for decision makers in schools. Edited by Genesee
(PDF).
- The Curriculum and English as an Additional Language: Introductory Training for School Support Staff
A programme that trains support staff enabling them to assist students' language learning skill (British Department for Education and Skills).
- Curriculum Mapping: Virtual Workshop
Collect and analyse data on what is being taught, to inform overall planning (Education World).
- Designing an Effective Academic Literacy Course
Ruth Schoenbach gives guidelines in terms of structure, curriculum and classroom interactions that guide educators as they develop courses that suit their settings.
- EDNA: Education Australia Network
This is a huge repository of material that can be reproduced for education purposes at no cost or © infringement. Easily searched via a number of different search tools.
- Educational Inequality: Mapping Race, Class and Gender: A Synthesis of Research Evidence
The report investigates the relative significance of race and ethnicity so as to clarify an agenda for educational equality of opportunity (British Department for Education and Skills).
- ESL Standards for Pre-K-12 Students
Draft ESL standards from TESOL, the international body that TESOLANZ is affiliated to. TESOL's standards were drafted as a starting point for developing effective and equitable education for ESOL students.
- The ESL Standards: Bridging the Academic Gap for English Language Learners
Deborah Short’s article has relevance for the New Zealand context with the current Curriculum Project. Have the language learning needs of ESOL students in mainstream programmes been written into the new curriculum documents?
- Establishing an Effective Newcomer Program
Short and Boyson’s 2003 article offers guidance on developing a program for new arrivals (CAL).
- Foundation Learning Progressions for Listening, Speaking, Reading Writing and Numeracy
Draft document from the Tertiary Education Commission (TEC) that provides a framework that shows what adult learners can do at successive points in their language and numeracy learning. Can be used to underpin the development of curricula (PDF).
- A Holistic Approach to Task-Based Course Design
Jane Willis outlines three basic principles relating to language learning, then describes and illustrates a holistic process of course and materials design which takes these principles into account.
- Integrating EAL Learners into the Mainstream Curriculum
Constant Leung discusses the trends in integrating English language learners into the mainstream curriculum.
- Lexical Phrases in Syllabus and Materials Design
Willis suggests that we should look very carefully at recurrent phrases (The Language Teacher Online).
- Program Factors in Effective Foreign and Second Language Teaching
From Jack Richards.
- Reformulation and Reconstruction: Tasks that Promote 'Noticing'
Scott Thornbury describes ways he has used reformulation and reconstruction tasks in his classroom to help students notice language forms.
- Self-perception and Practice in Teaching Grammar
2001 article by Borg on how teacher practice is affected by what they know about language. Clear recommendations for teacher educators.
- SOLO Taxonomy
This taxonomy developed by Biggs and Collis describes how a student's performance can grow in complexity while mastering a task. There are five stages, and the framework is claimed to be applicable to any subject area.
- Which Syllabus: The Traditional and the Holistic Syllabus
A short discussion of the advantages and disadvantages of holistic and traditional course design (BBC World Service).
