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Research Agenda for Adult ESL - A paper prepared by the National Center for ESL Literacy Education in collaboration with the National Center for the Study of Adult Learning and Literacy with support from Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages, Inc. addressing unanswered questions about the adult English language learner, program design, teacher preparation, instruction, and assessment, incorporating feedback from learners, instructors, program administrators, policymakers, and researchers. The paper has three major purposes: to provide funders with clear priorities for funding; to provide researchers with support for proposing specific projects, and to provide a focus for discussion about how to improve adult ESL programs. En español
Research and E.A.L.: Ways forward for the profession - Lynne Cameron, School of Education, University of Leeds. "Without appropriate evidence about what works, and what doesn't, in developing the language skills of bilingual pupils, classroom practice runs the risk of changing in the wrong direction, or of not changing at all. Research can, and should, provide us with evidence as to the effectiveness of different teaching methods and strategies, and the impact of policy decisions on practice. In this article, I want to explore some of the ways in which EAL might be enriched by having a stronger research base, and how we might move forwards to increase research activity within EAL." (EAL is an acronym for English as an additional language, a term used to emphasize the fact that many English language learners may already be proficient in more than one or two [ or more ] languages.
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