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Assessment of English Language Learners
May 26, 2011
Last week I watched a webcast on the 'Colorin Colorado' website about how English Language Learners in the USA could and are being assessed there. Much of what was said has been said before but it is always useful to have ideas reinforced. A child's native language or the one spoken at home, as well as their culture are important in scaffolding their learning of the English langauge. The linguistic level of a child in their native tongue will also affect their learning of English and examples were given of how some school districts take this into account when placing a child into the appropriate class.
Rather than assessment only being important at the end of a learning period, especially if a standardised test is used, there must be continual evaluation and assessment of students in order to drive the further planning of lessons and teaching materials for them.
Though USA centric this webcast is worth listening to to remind us of some of the things we can do to help our studentswho don't have English as their first language at home.