Career

1. Teaching
ESL students in
mainstream classrooms:
Language in learning across
the curriculum

2. Running Order
• What Is ESL in the mainstream?
• Overview of Module 1
• Example Student Profile
• Overview of Module 2
• The ‘Register Continuum’ and ‘Scaffolding’
• Sample Activities
• Q&A / Discussion Component
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3. Unlocking the World
• Teaching ESL students in mainstream classrooms: Language in learning across the
curriculum is an innovative professional development program for all teachers working
with students who are learning through a language that is not their primary language.
The program:
• identifies the language-related needs of ESL students and develops teaching practices
that address their needs in a holistic and explicit manner
• develops teachers' awareness of how to accommodate the cultural and linguistic diversity
and experiences of ESL students
• provides a positive context for teachers to trial suggested strategies and reflect critically
and openly on their teaching
• shows how to develop collaborative working relationships between teachers (across
subject areas) through a shared understanding of how to support ESL students.
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4. Module 1 overview
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In this module, we:
• consider who ESL students are and the factors that may
impact on their success at school
• see that, as with all learners, ESL students have diverse
interests, experiences and needs
• explore through case studies the range of
understandings, skills and experiences that ESL students
may bring to the learning context
• participate in a second language learning experience
• identify teaching practices supportive of ESL students.

5. 1
We are all complex individuals, each with multiple factors affecting our lives
every day.
a middle-aged woman
a mother a Japanese speaker
a vegetarian
a Buddhist
a teacher
a member of a local community group
a tennis player
an English speaker
an aunt
a sister
the oldest child/daughter
Multiple identities
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6. 6
Student Profile
Funds of Knowledge Multiple Identities
Heritage Identities
Third
Culture
Kids

7. In this module, we:
• introduce the theories of language, learning and
teaching that underpin the course
• develop our understanding of the relationship between
text and context and the implications for our
classrooms
• examine a teaching and learning cycle that allows for
language to be a focus in an integrated and scaffolded
approach.
Teaching ESL students in mainstream classrooms Module 2
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Module 2 overview

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technical/abstract
formal/informed
informal/novice
Field
Tenor
Mode
everyday
Register continuum
written
spoken
Activities
planned
in a unit
of work
Setting the context
Developing control

9. 9
Scaffolding
Support Guidance
Intervention
‘What and how we learn depends very much on the
company we keep.’