Course Information
Course Overview
Guide to improving your ESL students' English Language Skills and Academic Performance
Have many of you teachers, would like to increase your ESL/EAL students' English proficiency in just one year? How would you like to have all your ESL/EAL students connect with you and acquire English due to the new strategies you apply in your teaching?
Whether you call it English as a Second Language, English as an Added Language, English as a New Language, or English as a Foreign Language, if ALL or SOME of the students in your class, are learning English, this course is for you!
Join me and learn some of the best practices you can utilize in order for your ELs to acquire English, as well as various ways you can assist them with their vocabulary and writing skills. This course will help you get to know your students and understand their instructional needs. You will learn what you should expect from your ESL students when it comes to writing, based on their current level of English proficiency and how to move them from their current level of proficiency to the level you want them to be in acquiring English. By the end of this course, you will feel confident about teaching writing and vocabulary to newcomers and intermediate level ESL students, as well as to advanced English Learners.
Course Content
- 5 section(s)
- 23 lecture(s)
- Section 1 Understand Your English learner's (EL's) Challenges and Needs
- Section 2 Become Familiar with Your English Leaners' Writing Expectations
- Section 3 Enrich Your Students' Vocabulary and Language
- Section 4 Teaching Newcomers and Implementing Speaking and Writing to Support ELs
- Section 5 Resources to Assist ELs with Their Writing Practices
What You’ll Learn
- Implement instructional strategies that improve English Learners' writing skills, Learn ways to enhance your English Learners' vocabulary, Experience yourself the language learning process and understand why pointing out the strategies you learn in this course will help your students learn English, Enrich ALL your students' vocabulary and academic language use, Learn how to assist your English Learners with their writing practices, Understand your ESL students /English Learners
Reviews
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tteresa Rudi Rudolph
I like the charts and visuals. They are easy to understand. There are many useful tips for teaching English in ways that are fun. The lessons are taught for a successful student experience.
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CCarlson Provost
Yes it is given more in-depth of what I'm learning which is ELL
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PPeter Scerri
Very well structured and easy to follow course. Provides some good ideas for activities too.
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NNouie Ann Lumangit
I am so happy that I take this course because it helps me understand how to teach English to the students. As a future teacher, this course equips me with new knowledge that I can use when I start to teach when it comes to understanding the diverse learners and the strategies to be used in teaching English.