Esl Manual For Mainstream Teachers

'Help! I have a student who doesn't speak English! What do I do now?' For teachers in this situation, ESL Manual for Mainstream Teachers is just for you. Janice Yearwood experienced that herself and wishes to spare other teachers from making the mistakes she did. This book will provide a 'comfort blanket' for non-ESL-trained teachers, providing ESL information and practical guidelines on how to aid their students. It also furnishes cultural background to facilitate understanding of what your ELL (English Language Learner) is going through. You'll learn how to bring your other students on board to help your ELL and how to relate to the ELL's parents. For those working with ESL professionals, ESL Manual for Mainstream Teachers will help you to be on the 'same page' as the ESL teachers--a bridge between you and them.

Teaching ESL students in mainstream classrooms: Language in learning across the curriculum Tutor Training is an intensive five-day train-the-trainer professional development program for teachers working with students who are learning in English while they are developing English as an additional language. It equips tutors with the knowledge and tools necessary to confidently deliver high quality professional development using the associated Teacher Course.

"In this book, ESL and mainstream teachers from primary and secondary schools in Australia, Canada, the USA and the United Kingdom, describe how they go about 'mainstreaming'. Well-supplied with examples of teaching materials and pupils' work, their narratives are practical and detailed. At the same time they raise vital questions of school policy which the whole school community must address when launching initiatives of this kind." "The book will be of very practical use to ESL and mainstream teachers, as well as to principals, advisers and those at all levels of the education service who work in multilingual communities. It will also serve as a handbook for teacher-educators and student teachers of any subject who are preparing to work in linguistically diverse classrooms."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

This revised and expanded edition of the 1990 bestseller includes the latest research in language acquisition: how to teach reading and writing and how to develop listening and speaking skills. It is filled with the authors' trademark anecdotes and practical advice, based on their many years of experience working with ELL students. Strategies for teaching the four literacy skills-reading, writing, speaking, and listening-are enhanced by student examples and illustrations. To help you personalize the theory discussed, each chapter includes a section with questions and case studies so you can apply the information to your own school and issues. In this new edition, you'll find great suggestions on how to familiarize your ESL students with the school and classmates measure reading, writing, speaking, and listening fluency recognize and help students cope with culture shock enrich your reading and writing programs recognize the different needs of your students-with effective strategies for each level of literacy teach language through content help ESL students succeed in the content areas tap the resources of your school and community

Since it was first established in the 1970's the Applied Linguistics and Language Study series has become a major force in the study of practical problems in human communication and language education. Drawing extensively on empirical research and theoretical work in linguistics, sociology, psychology and education, the series explores key issues in language acquisition and language use. English as a Second Language learners are now a considerable and increasing part of the mainstream of urban schools in English-speaking countries. Beyond the learning of English, this development raises broader questions of language as a medium of education in a multilingual, multicultural environment. Drawing on their experience as researchers and educators in Australia, Canada and England, the authors of English as a Second Language in the Mainstream present an up-to-date account of advances in theory and practice. Their analysis of system-wide provision however, suggests that a truly responsive educational vision is lacking: government policy is inadequate, educational practices for ESL students are either underdeveloped or poorly coordinated with practices for other students, and the rhetoric of reform fails to engage significantly with issues of teaching and resources. The authors argue towards a more comprehensive vision which can acknowledge the relation between issues concerning ESL students and issues concerning the educational system as a whole, which can coordinate reforms in ESL education with general reforms, which can explicitly and systematically integrate language learning and content learning, and which can build more positively on the multilingual and multicultural nature of modern education for all students.

This book addresses the issues which arise where English-medium international schools accept non-English speaking students. The book aims to help such schools develop a special programme to enable these students to pursue their education and fulfil their potential in English. Produced in conjunction with ECIS specifically for international schools, this reference work should be of interest to all those involved with children who are being educated in a language other than their mother tongue.