Bøger udgivet af Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages, Incorporated (TESOL)

Describes practical examples of integrating language and content in classrooms in Italy, the Netherlands, Yemen,Turkey, Taiwan, Russia, the US, and South Africa. Teachers help students achieve their goals. The book is divided into four sections that help readers navigate the sometimes chaotic intersection of language and content.

Teachers of English language learners in 21st-century classrooms face a daunting task. The nature of language is complex, learners' needs are diverse, academic content challenges students, and the demand for accountability is an educational reality. Paper to Practice offers sound advice and practical steps for confronting these challenges.

Describes a variety of innovative games used today in language classrooms around the globe, reflecting different contexts and cultures. Chapters in this book demonstrate how both theory and practice inform our teaching approaches. This book stands apart in that the contributions reflect multiple classroom uses.

Standards for ESL/EFL Teachers of Adults offers performance indicators, vignettes, and evaluation tools for instructors. These clearly organized components will help instructors identify the qualities and practices to pursue in their teaching. The standards in this book address planning, instructing, and assessing as the basis for effective teaching. These three core standards lead to five additional standards that focus on both the instructor and the instruction: identity and context, language proficiency, learning, content, and commitment and professionalism. Collectively, these eight standards represent the foundation of what professional teachers of adult ESL and EFL learners should know and be able to do. The eight standards are organized in a useful and concrete format. Each is introduced with a brief description followed by theoretical justification, numbered performance indicators, vignettes of real-life settings using the performance indicators, and a forum for further thought and discussion. The standards can be applied to most settings with adult ESL or EFL learners and can benefit educators and administrators in teacher-training programs, in educational programs, and in achieving professional development both personally and institution-wide.

Provides extensive matrices elucidating sample performance indicators, organised by the five standards (targeting language in social/intercultural interactions, language arts, mathematics, science, and social studies) and grade-level cluster (PreK-K, 1-3, 4-5, 6-8, and 9-12). The matrices are formed by the interaction of the five language proficiency levels with each language domain.

PACE Yourself is for inexperienced or volunteer tutors of ESL. This handbook does not aim to make overnight experts of novices. Rather, the authors provide an easy-to-follow guide for people who want to tutor small groups of non-native speakers of English but do not know how. Includes reproducible forms, appendices of resources, terminology, and professional organisations.

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 programme indicators in eight distinct areas, the standards can be used to review an existing programme or as a guide in setting up a new ESOL programme.

Focuses on the challenges faced by English teachers for whom English is a second (or even third or fourth) language. Four themes receive special emphasis: communicative language teaching, proficiency, language learning, and practicality.

The benefits and advantages of classroom practices incorporating unity-in-diversity and diversity-in-unity are what Multilevel and Diverse Classrooms is all about. Chapters in the volume approach multilevelness from a holistic and humanistic perspective by considering diversity not only in language skills and proficiencies, but also in learning styles, purposes, and contexts.

This volume in the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) for English Language Learners series was designed to deepen teacher's knowledge and provides instructional approaches and practices for supporting grades 6-12 ELLs as they meet the ambitious expectations of the CCSS for Literacy in History/Social Studies, Science, and Technical Subjects.

Offers teachers in the ESL/EFL classroom some of the first published materials for guiding learners past grammar into authentic-sounding (conventional) utterances and sequences, replacing the scripted unnatural or stilted dialogue provided in textbooks. Teachers will find a range of pedagogical activities to put to immediate use in the classroom.

Language teachers have long been aware of the devastating effect of learners' grammatically correct, yet situationally inappropriate spoken or written communication. This volume addresses how to raise learner awareness of pragmatic gaffs through research-based, field-tested activities. Teachers are given vital support through worksheets, audio files, transcripts, and answer keys.

This newest volume in the ELT in Context series by Nicole Takeda is about teaching English at a nongovernmental organization in Cambodia and is unique in its details and documentation. It presents firsthand accounts of the considerable challenges and difficulties facing English language teachers working with learners in poverty, on between $1 and $2 US dollars per day.

Provides activities that offer way to observe or score students' performances and give feedback that enlightens students and teachers about the effectiveness of learning and teaching.

An important and influential development in Brazilian ELT has been the establishment and growth of private, non-profit, language teaching and learning organisations (LTOs). It is possible that LTOs can bring together privately funded and publicly available language education. This book examines how LTOs are affecting Brazil's ELT industry and international economy.

With a focus on ways to best tailor instruction to captitalize upon the strengths each ELL brings to the classroom, The Common Core State Standards in Mathematics for English Language Learners, High School, explores some of the ways high school mathematics content can be made accessible to ELLs by building from their strengths and scaffolding their opportunities to learn more.

Presents an overview of adult ESL online in the USA, using five students to illustrate a number of important points. A specific chapter focuses on teaching and learning English online at the tertiary level in the US. The book also presents a clear and concise summary, this time of adult education and workplace English language learning and teaching online in the US.

Explains in a practical, easy-to-understand terms the challenges that English Learners face when it comes to reading. The author covers the most pressing matters impeding the learning of students, and provides strategies and resources, helpful background information and reflection questions, and invaluable suggestions and tips for helping English learners overcome reading challenges.

Presents readers with an up-todate summary of the current situation for English language teachers and learners in what is now referred to as KSA. Dr Hastings presents a clear and concise account of the rise of English language teaching and learning in KSA, at the national and at the local level, from when the nation state was first established in the early 1930s to the present day.

The US-Mexico border crossing has become an area of study in its own right. However, very few of the current books focus on language and linguistic factors. Perspectives on Teaching English at the U.S.- Mexico Border adds knowledge, understanding, and insight not only to the field of TESOL, but to other fields as well.

To stay up-to-date with the developments as the discipline grows, English language teachers must work to expand their knowledge base by participating in continual professional development and practicing reflective teaching. Farrell provides insights into the many kinds of training and practices you can engage in to ensure growth, including team teaching, action research, and teaching portfolios.

Clearly, a great deal has changed in the last four decades in terms of English language teaching in Colombia, which puts this book, in many ways, at the interface of where ELT in Colombia was, where it is now, and where it could be headed in the immediate future.

Enables teachers to support Grades 6-12 ELLs as they meet ambitious Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts. It provides concrete ideas for engaging language learners in a range of intellectually rich tasks designed to sharpen their content knowledge and academic English. The chapters weave together several themes that will help ELLs succeed in the English Language Arts.

What could language teachers learn from neuroscientists and economists? And what could they learn from anthropologists, psychologists, and myriad other professions? Language Teaching Insights From Other Fields is, at heart, a book about exploration and about seeking inspiration from beyond routine contexts.

In any classroom, it is through language interaction that students are able to acquire knowledge, develop skills, and understand communication. This title takes a look at the complex relationship between language, interaction, and learning to help teachers have a fuller understanding of interaction and in doing so, promote a fuller understanding of their effectiveness as teachers.

Teachers often find that materials get between learners and learning for a variety of reasons. Because learning materials play a significant part in lessons, it is important they are fit for purpose. Mann and Copland provide principles and approaches for adapting material to suit a variety of contexts and show how teachers can work successfully with limited resources.

What theoretical perspectives, classroom approaches, and types of activities will result in lessons that are both enjoyable and beneficial to young learners? Teaching English to Young Learners provides specific tasks, strategies, and activities to show you how to establish the kind of reflective teaching that helps your students develop fluency and accuracy in the English language.

Introduces a practical, fresh approach to classroom management which discusses 10 principles to ensure students remain at the heart of a structured, practical, and effective classroom. Quirke's methods follow the DREAM philosophy; Develop and delegate, Recruit and respect, Enhance and enjoy, Appraise and attend, and Mentor and motivate.

When students are motivated, they are more confident and successful in their learning. But what is at the heart of a motivated learner? This book discusses the five elements of motivation - the teacher, teaching methodology, the text, the task, and the test - and explores how to use these "5 Ts" to impact student motivation.

Why do students feel that mastering academic English is difficult? Is it really so different from other types of English? The authors present academic English as a particular type of English that is not necessarily better, fancier, or harder; rather, it is simply a different kind of English that is usually learned in scholastic settings after general English has been acquired.