Mainstreaming ESL: Case Studies in Integrating ESL Students by John Clegg

By John Clegg

During this textual content, practitioners from fundamental and secondary faculties within the united kingdom, united states, Canada and Australia describe their studies in integrating the educating of youngsters studying English as a moment language into the mainstream lecture room.

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And McPake, J. (1991) Partnership Teaching. London: NFER/HMSO. Canale, M. and Swain, M. (1980) Theoretical bases of communicative approaches to second language teaching and testing. Applied Linguistics 1,1-47. U. M. (1989) The cognitive academic language learning approach. In When They Don't All Speak English. Urbana, IL: NCTE. Collier, V. (1994) Plenary Address, TESOL Conference. W-B. Olsen & B. Leone. TESOL Matters 4, 3. (1995) Oral presentation at a conference of theNationalAssociation for Language Development in the Curriculum, London, UK.

This categoryshown in Figure 1 as 'unadjusted'accounts for very large numbers of ESL children who are submerged in mainstream English and do not flourish; it is thus much larger than it appears in this diagram. Language-sensitive teaching may be formally supported' or 'unsupported'. Classrooms in which there is no formal language support may be good or bad places for second language learners; as we have seen, there are those which inherently provide a facilitating environment; they need hardly any adjustments for ESL learners.

There are forms of separate provision, for instance, which are similar to mainstream work. Sheltered subject teaching, for instance, is 'content-led': it preserves the integrity of a subject while taking account of the needs of ESL learners. A subject is taught to an ESL-only group, by a subject specialist, incorporating the linguistic and pedagogical adjustments which ESL learners need and offering credit on a par with a mainstream course. In this volume, Ross McKean illustrates the sheltered teaching of secondary history.

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