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SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY

EDUCATION 367-4

INTEGRATING ESL LEARNERS IN DIFFERENT SCHOOL SUBJECTS

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ELEMENTARY

LANGUAGE

E2.00 ?

Fall Semester ?

Sept. 7 - Dec. 6)

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Phone: 291-4418 or

M 17:30 - 19:50 ?

Milner Education Centre

6656 Glover Rd, Langley, B.0

Prequisite: - 60 hours of credit

COURSE OBJECTIVES

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

Texts

Barbara Laws & Mary Eckes. The More Than Just Surviving Handbook,

Winnipeg: Peguis Publishing

Pat Rigg & Virginia G. Allen. 1989. When They Don't All Speak English:

Integrating the ESL Student into the Regular Classroom. Urbana, Ill: NCTE

Fran Parkin & Felicity Sidnell, 1992 ESL is Everybody's Business. Markham,

Ontario: Pembroke Pub.

Evaluation will be discussed in detail the first class and it is expected that

participants will have ideas about how they wish to be evaluated. For most

participants, it should be possible to build in a practical project which can be

field-tested.