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Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL)

A Research Guide for Teaching English as a Second Language from West Chester University Libraries

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 Development Standards Framework
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.

Standards for Adult ESL Instruction

Maryland Content Standards for Adult ESL/ESOL
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 Language Proficiency Standards for Adult Education

Websites

The UCLA Phonetics Lab Home Page
Ethnologue
The International Phonetic Alphabet in Unicode
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
The New Language Classroom
From the Center for World Languages at UCLA
Learning English - For teachers
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
What is correct language?
by Edward Finegan
Spanish in Texas

Associations

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