Accommodating College ESL Learner Communication Needs: Perceptions, Policies, and Practices

The purpose of this qualitative inquiry was to determine how the Practical Nursing and Pharmacy Technician programs in one southern Ontario community college could more effectively accommodate ESL learners' communication needs. The literature review examined (a) linguistic issues, such as language testing and second-language learning theories, (b) organizational matters, such as ESL curriculum and teacher training, and (c) affective issues, such as motivation for second-language learning, learning styles, and the student-teacher relationship. I gathered perceptual data from the programs' administrators, faculty members, and ESL learners. Eleven participants took part in individual interviews or a focus group session. The results suggest that ESL learners need assistance with discipline-specific vocabulary and cultural nuances. College ESL learners' weak communicative competence, together with misleading acceptance standards for ESL learners and limited support available to faculty members and to students, decrease opportunities for successful completion of the programs. The results point to re-assessment of the college's admission policies and procedures, program evaluation practices that consider the needs of ESL learners, discipline-specific language support, and strategies to enhance the ESL student-teacher relationship. The study highlights theory relating to ESL learners' self-perception and engagement, as well as the importance of including the voice of college ESL learners in educational research. The results suggest that despite ESL learners' perseverance in completing their studies, power imbalances remain. The college has yet to implement organizational strategies such as discipline-specific communications and ESL courses and extended language support that could meet the communication needs of ESL learners in the two programs.

The Relationship between AP English Language Performance and College Outcomes

This study focused on the relationship between students’ Advanced Placement (AP) English language performance and their subsequent college success. Targeted students were divided into three groups according to their AP English Language performance. Subsequent college success was measured by students’ first-year college GPA, retention to the second year, and institutional selectivity. The demographic characteristics of the three AP performance groups with regard to gender, ethnicity, and best language spoken are provided. Results indicated that, after controlling for students’ SAT scores as a measure of prior academic performance, AP English Language performance was positively related to all three measures of college success.

Codeship: Financing growth: Case study and Teaching note

A Work Project, presented as part of the requirements for the Award of a Masters Degree in Management from the NOVA – School of Business and Economics

Development of a National English Language Policy and Framework for Legally Resident Adult Immigrants - Horwath Report

The Office of the Minister for Integration (OMI), in conjunction with the Department of Education and Science (DES), commissioned an independent review to assist in the development of a national English Language policy and framework for legally-resident adult immigrants. Horwath Consulting Ireland, in association with Rambll Management and Matrix Knowledge Group, were awarded the contract to undertake this assignment. The terms of reference for the assignment state that: “proposed future developments will be governed by a clear strategy which reflects the importance of English language tuition in overall integration objectives and which addresses key coordination, technical, funding and service-delivery issues."

Response to instruction, English language learners and disproportionate representation : The role of assessment

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A study of students' metacognitive beliefs about foreign language study and their impact on learning

This article reports on an investigation into the language learning beliefs of students of French in England, aged 16 to 18. It focuses on qualitative data from two groups of learners (10 in total). While both groups had broadly similar levels of achievement in French in terns of examination success, they dffered greatly in the self-image they had of themselves as language learners, with one group displaying low levels of self-eficacy beliefs regarding the possibility of future success. The implica tions of such beliefs for students' levels of motivation and persistence are discussed, together with their possible causes. The article concludes by suggesting changes in classroom practice that might help students develop a more positive image of them selves as language learners.

English Language Skills and Socioeconomic Segregation of UK Immigrants

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A practical grammar of the English language, synthetic and analytic : adapted to the wants of public schools, academies, and private learners /

Mode of access: Internet.

Práctica educativa y adquisición de la lengua de la escuela

El trabajo que presentamos pretende establecer e implamentar criterios respecto la organización escolar y la práctica educativa para mejorar las competencias básicas del alumnado extranjero que participa en las aulas de Cataluña con una gran diversidad respecto el conocimiento de la lengua de la escuela. En concreto, buscamos profundizar y localizar los factores y elementos relevantes para la organización escolar y la práctica educativa en escuelas plurilingües con estas características

Algunes qüestions referides a l’aprenentatge lingüístic de la infància estrangera a Catalunya

L’article està organitzat en dues parts. A la primera, s’aborden algunes qüestions generals relacionades amb la integració i l’aprenentatge de llengües. A la segona, es discuteix la manera de fer possible l’aprenentatge de les llengües de l’escola a aquesta part de la infància, amb un èmfasi especial en el tractament de la seva pròpia llengua

Aprendre anglès a Nicaragua amb imatges: consolidant nous llenguatges i xarxes interculturals

El present estudi parteix d’una premissa complicada: el context en el qual es produeix l’estudi de cas. Com ensenyar una llengua estrangera en àrees rurals de l’Amèrica Central quan les aules escolars d’aquest entorn a penes disposen de pissarres i pupitres, i molt menys de llibres de text, gravadores o ordinadors? És més, els mestres que es veuen obligats a impartir la matèria de llengua anglesa sovint tenen un coneixement de la mateixa de nivell elemental (això si hi ha sort), i molt poca metodologia pràctica de l’ensenyament. Sense coneixements, sense materials didàctics disponibles ni adequats, com podem aconseguir que l’alumnat arribi a adquirir competències bàsiques en la matèria? Com podem afavorir l’adquisició d’una competència comunicativa mínima? Com podem introduir l’ús dels nous llenguatges digitals en unes aules que encara no disposen de la tecnologia adequada?

La Mise en oeuvre préalable à la construction collaborative d’une séquence d’anglais à l’école élémentaire

La recherche présentée est issue d’une thèse en cours qui étudie la manière dont se nouent les relations entre les compétences culturelles et linguistiques au cours de séances de langue étrangère au cycle 3 de l’école primaire. Notre recherche s’appuie sur des données empiriques quantitatives et qualitatives et sur un cadre théorique articulant des concepts de didactique des langues et cultures (notamment, Aden, 2007; Gruson, 2007; Puren, 2002; Zarate, 1993), mais aussi de didactique des mathématiques dans une perspective comparatiste (entre autres, Brousseau, 1998; Sensevy, Mercier & Schubauer-Leoni, 2000; Sensevy & Mercier, 2007)