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Education 367-3

Integrating ESL Learners in Different School Subjects:

Elementary Language Arts

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(E1.00)

Fall Semester, 1994

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Instructor. Dr. K. Toohey

(September 6-December 5)

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Office:

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MPX 8544

Thursdays ?

Telephone: 291-4418

16:30-20:20 ?

Messages: 291-3395

Location: MPX 7610

COURSE DESCRIPTION:

Increasingly, Canadian classrooms enroll students from a variety of language

backgrounds. Participants in this course will investigate how elementary school teachers

are able to meet the needs of students of English as a second language within the regular

classroom language arts program. Designed for non-specialists, this course will acquaint

participants with basic theory about second language learning and will provide many

practical ideas about how curriculum activities and events may be best adapted for

students of ESL. Some topics to be covered are:

assessing students' language development

supporting students' first language development

multi-ability grouping

whole language and ESL

collaborating with the specialist ESL teachers.

ASSIGNMENTS:

1.

Self Introduction ..........................................................................10%

2.

Learning Log ................................................................................30%

3.

Observation .................................................................................30%

4.

Curriculum Materials, Action Research Proposal

orTerm Paper .......................................................................30%

REQUIRED READING:

Pauline Gibbons. 1993.

Learning to Learn in a Second Language.

Heinemann.

Portsmouth: NH.

RECOMMENDED READING:

Heald Taylor, Gail.

Whole Language Strategies for ESL.

OISE Press.

Freeman, Y.S., & Freeman, D.

Whole Language for Second Language Learners.

Heinemann.

Gilles, Bixby et. al.

Whole Language Strategies for Secondary.

Richard C. Owen

Publisher.