ESOL: English for Speakers of Other Languages: Teaching ESOL

This easy-to-follow guide shows how learning academic language can be achieved by developing a set of skills that can be honed with practice, effective instruction, and motivation.

English Language Leaners in the United States are expected to read "at grade level" in all their courses after just a single year of ESL classes, despite the fact that many enter the U.S. school system without adequate preparation. Because these students must read well in all subject areas, all teachers - not only ESL teachers - are, in many ways, English Teachers. In this book Popko explains in practical, easy-to-understand terms the challenges that English Learners face when it comes to reading. This book provides countless strategies and resources, helpful background information and reflection questions, and invaluable suggestions and tips for helping your English learners overcome their reading challenges and achieve academic excellence.

This book will help you make informed decisions to improve English language instruction and assessment. These foundational principles are for all educators and are applicable across different educational settings. This book features a detailed explanation of The 6 Principles, practical applications for your classroom, ideas for building a strong community of practice, and more!

What are the components of a quality education ESL program? TESOL's Standards for Adult Education ESL Programs answers this question by defining quality components from a national perspective. Using program indicators in eight distinct areas, the standards can be used to review an existing program or as a guide in setting up a new ESOL program.

Using reflective practice to help teachers become comfortable with teaching grammar, this easy-to-follow guide defines grammar from a teacher perspective, shows how corpus linguistics can be a useful tool, covers basic concepts of grammar research, and addresses important components of teaching grammar.

This fascinating presentation of current research undoes numerous myths about how we most effectively learn new words in a second language. In clear, reader-friendly text, the author details the successful approach of IBI vocabulary instruction, which emphasizes the presentation of target vocabulary as input early on and the incremental (gradual) build-up of different aspects of vocabulary knowledge over time.

What School Leaders Need to Know About English Learners offers school leaders the foundation, the ideas, and the strategies to not only improve outcomes for English language learners, but to create rich multicultural and multilingual school environments which benefit all students. This book equips school leaders with effective, research-based strategies and best practices to help both ESOL and content-area teachers succeed in their roles.

This is a down-to-earth resource filled with strategies for designing learning activities that work toward specific outcomes.It illustrates the ways in which social media will improve learning and contains case studies that clearly demonstrate social media's ability to: Increase communication and interactivity in a course, Facilitate engaging learning activities, Enhance students' satisfaction, learning, and performance

This collection of teachers' contributions looks more like assessment activities than like tests because they are thoroughly integrated into the language teaching and learning processes. Each activity provides scoring and feedback that enlightens both students and teachers about the effectiveness of the language learning and teaching involved. More than 100 activities offer alternative ways of doing assessment organized around methods, feedback perspectives, task-based assessment, classroom chores, written skills, and oral skills.

The day-to-day assessment of student learning is unquestionably one of the most demanding, complex, and important tasks that teachers face. This book is a comprehensive overview of different forms of language classroom assessment and practical applications that support students' learning in any context. The activities and reflective breaks interspersed throughout the book give teachers a unique opportunity to learn experientially and to reflect critically on core aspects of their assessment practices.

College faculty and TAs are often unfamiliar with the experiences of international students coming from non-English-speaking countries who are relatively new to the U.S context. This book enlightens us to some of the international students' needs using quotes, anecdotes, and reflection questions as well as specific strategies, resources, and activities that serve as tools for responding to common instructional challenges.

The classroom practices discussed reflect various trends and methodologies; however, the underlying theme is the need for clear and meaningful communication between ESL writers and their readers. While approaches differ, two core beliefs are constant: ESL students have something important to say, and ESL writing teachers can help them say it. Effective instruction starts with meaningful writing tasks, integrates a variety of skills and technologies, builds competencies, requires critical thinking, and employs appropriate resources.

Emphasizing local and global forms of citizenship and identification, Xiaoye You merges a humanistic vision with the rigor of social science, arguing that linguistic and cultural differences can be explored to recover human connections normally severed by geographical and semiotic borders. He examines several areas of writing affected by globalization. He then turns to the composition classroom, highlighting the challenges and possibilities of crossing cultural boundaries in academic discourse before introducing a pedagogy aimed at fostering American students' translingual and transcultural sensibilities.