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I am putting together a presentation for some staff at my school on how they can support ELLs students in their mainstream classes, from years 9 - year 13. If anyone has any tools, strategies, resources or ideas that'd be happy to share, it...

Kia Ora Everyone I'd love to find out what people do to test each new intake of international students. We have 35 new students arriving in term three and there is a lot of pressure to test these students quickly so timetables can be issued...

Vocabulary size tests can be useful. Unfortunately there is a flaw in most, if not all, available tests which results in reported scores being much higher than they should be, especially at lower levels. Thus a student who has an actual vocabulary...

Hi Everyone, I am an ESOL/English teacher in Christchurch on study leave for the year. I am doing a masters action research project to design a professional development programme to explore culturally responsive teaching strategies and resources...

The following texts have been recommended by teachers: Focus on IELTS, a course book by Cambridge is comprehensive  Mac Millan Improve your skills Reading for IELTS with answer key by Sam Carter and Norman Whitby work well....

At what point are you able to use material you have written, following the Guidelines in the NZQA example, as an assessment task for your students? Are the assessment tasks shared on VLN able to be used as well? Will be so interested to hear....

Hi everyone      Here is a link to the online document Recommended strories for ELLs. Please feel free to add.

Description: The ELLP Information Pack An  ELLP information pack was sent to all schools with ESOL funded students in mid-November. The information pack includes the following documents. NB: If you have received this newsletter as...

Dear Secondary ESOL Online Members, Kia ora My name is Sara and I am a PhD candidate in e-learning, at the College of Education, University of Canterbury. I am investigating:   •        New...

I think I know the answer to this question but want to be 100% certain. Some of my students completed ESOL US 3482 last year. I would like them to have more exposure to basic forms this year as they are not yet ready for the Level Two standard....

All credits for unit standards count towards NCEA. So credits gained from ESOL and EL unit standard assessments are NCEA credits in juts the same way as achievement standards i any other subject. And now the level 3 and 4 EL standards are also...

Start a discussion, ask a question or share your experiences below. Join the EL unit standards assessment sub-group here. Read previous questions and answers about ESOL unit standards here.

What do you want to discuss about the MoE funding changes?