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TESOL standards

PreK-12 English Language Proficiency Standards
Call Number: 428.0071 P924
Standards for Adult Education ESL Programs by Tesol Press
Call Number: Q 428.0071 S785
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.

K-12 standards, position papers, etc.

Pennsylania's English as a Second Language website
Pennsylvania's Language Proficiency Standards for English Language Learners pdf from link on right.
WIDA: English Language Proficiency (ELP) Standards
Links to standards on right side of website.
WIDA PreK-5 Standards
Click to download standards as pdf file.
WIDA 6-12 Standards
Click to download standards as pdf file.
What do we know about ELL formative assessment and how do we develop a system accordingly?
Presentation by H. Cook; click and open pdf file.
Framework for High-Quality English Language Proficiency Standards and Assessments
From the Assessment and Accountability Comprehensive Center for the U.S. Dept. of Education; click to download pdf file.
Connecting Research about English Language Learners to Practice
Research from the American Institutes for Research ELL site.

Websites

The UCLA Phonetics Lab Home Page
Corpus BROWN
Ethnologue
The International Phonetic Alphabet in Unicode
Winning Careers
From the Southern Conference on Language Teaching
Test Development Set (video link)
From the Center for Language Education And Research (CLEAR) at Michigan State University, download video on test creation or watch streaming video. See below for link to free accompanying workbook.
Test Development Set (workbook link)
From the Center for Language Education And Research (CLEAR) at Michigan State University. Download free workbook on test creation. Accompanies video (see link above)
CLEAR Newsletter
Newsletter dealing with language learning topics from the Center for Language Education And Research (CLEAR) at Michigan State University. Issues available from 1997 on.
fənɜtɪks: The Sounds of Spoken Language
English, Spanish, and German from the University of Iowa
The essentials of language teaching
From the National Capital Language Resource Center
Lingu@net
The New Language Classroom
From the Center for World Languages at UCLA
Learning English - For teachers
Connect With English
Streaming video segments for an ESL course for adolescents and adult learners
Speech Accent Archive
Compare the accents of native and non-native speakers of English
DICTIONARY OF AMERICAN REGIONAL ENGLISH
IDEA - The International Dialects Of English Archive
Learning English
From the Voice of America
What is correct language?
by Edward Finegan
Spanish in Texas

Standards for Adult ESL Instruction

Maryland Content Standards for Adult ESL/ESOL
Click link to download pdf file.
English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL)
From Massachusetts Department of Education Adult and Community Learning Services; click link to download pdf file.
Adult General Education Frameworks
From the Florida Department of Education; links to documents on adult ESL standards and instruction
English as a Second Language Content Standards for Adults

Associations

WCU MA TESL Program

Graduate Catalog entry for the MA TESL Program

Starting an MA TESL program

This book is not specific to West Chester's MA TESL program, but may be useful for students new to the program.

A student's guide to the MA TESOL by Nancy Bell
Call Number: 428.0071 B434

TESOL English Language Bulletin

Links to articles from the current issue of TESOL English Language Bulletin: A Weekly News Bulletin from Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages appear below. To receive this bulletin via email or to access the archives, use this link: http://multibriefs.com/briefs/tesol/index.php.

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