english as a second language

A collection of essays by adult new writers learning English. Each piece captures a memory of the writer's homeland.

"'Teaching Adoloscent English Language Learners' provides practical advice and field-tested strategies and techniques for the classroom...instructional suggestions are included that apply to multiple subjects and types of learners, many with examples of student work, and all with steps for implementations..."--Back cover.

Offers primary school teachers practical suggestions for blending comprehension instruction and ELL practices to create a literacy program for English language learners that focuses on inquiry.

A guide for teachers to teaching English to foreign speakers.

"Traces the lives of twenty-two immigrant teens throughout the course of a year at Denver's South High School who attended a specially created English Language Acquisition class and who were helped to adapt through strategic introductions to American culture"--OCLC.

Contains thirty-three dialogs and seven stories designed to help ESL students improve their reading and conversational skills.

Presents vocabulary-building lessons for preparation for the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL), covering over five hundred important words and providing practice exercises, and includes a practice test for the reading section of the Internet-based test.

Explains how to teach English as a second language within the regular curriculum, showing how to incorporate reading and writing into content areas and discussing scaffolding language- and content-learning.

Discusses how Response to Intervention (RTI) methods can help English language learners in the classroom, describing research-based strategies, and including checklists, sample letters, rubrics, and other resources.

A thesaurus designed to help intermediate and advanced English learners learn to make distinctions among related words based on definitions and typical usage in natural contexts.