Resources for ESL Learners in Mainstream Classrooms and Content-based ESL

Resources for ESL Learners in Mainstream Classrooms
and Content-based ESL

Background Reading	Tools	Resources
Science and Math	Language Arts and Social Studies	Special Areas

Background Reading

The ESL Teacher as Cultural Broker. Although written in the U.S. context, the ideas and practical activities fit many situations.
Bilingual Children's Mother Tongue: Why Is It Important for Education? (Jim Cummins)
Putting Language Proficiency in Its Place: Responding to Critiques of the Conversational/Academic Language Distinction (Cummins)
How Long Does It Take English Learners to Attain Proficiency? (PDF)
What Teachers Need to Know about Language (ERIC Digest)
The Role of Metacognition in Second Language Learning
The Effect of Age on Acquisition of a Second Language for School
The Expanding Role of the Elementary ESL Teacher: Doing More than Teaching Language
Assessing Integrated Language and Content Instruction
ESL Versus Mainstream Classes
Content-ESL Across the USA: Training Packet
LEP Students and the Integration of Language and Content: Knowledge Structures and Tasks
RR15: Conceptualizing Academic Language
EPR 11: Integrating Language and Content: Lessons from Immersion
Seven Hypotheses About Language Teaching and Learning
Classroom Strategies for Encouraging Collaborative Discussion
Promoting Successful Transition to the Mainstream
Instructional Conversations
Helping Language Minority Students After They Exit From Bilingual/ESL Programs
Teaching Language Through Content. An extensive bibliography from ERIC/CLL of online and print resources for content ESL for children through adult.
Making U.S. Schools Effective for English Language Learners, Part 1; Part 2; Part 3 (much of this applies to Canada as well)

Tools

Babel Fish: Instant Language Translator--150 languages
Academic Word List (the 570 word families that occur most frequently in post-secondary subject area study, not including the Most Frequent 2,000 Words in English)
Puzzlemaker. From Discovery.com, make wordsearches, crosswords, etc. online.

Resources for Planning Lessons

KidsClick! Links to content area sites recommended by librarians for young learners. Readability scales.
Enchanted Learning. Resources, including printable handouts, for young learners in the content areas.
ScienceNet Links. Lesson plans for various levels and benchmarked to the A.A.A.S. standards for science literacy.

Science and Math

Language Arts and Social Studies

Special Areas

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E-mail D. Turner at
dturner@pembinatrails.ca
03/14/04