TESOL 6 Principles

The acronym TESOL stands for ...

• Teaching English Sounds and Other Languages

• Teachers of English for Students of Other Languages

• Teaching English to Students from Other Lands

• Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages

TESOL's 6 Principles for Exemplary Teaching of English Learners are based on...

• Current anecdotal evidence from active research conducted and shared by foreign language teachers

• Numerous studies in the field conducted and shared by applied linguists and educators

• Surveys of English learners from varying language and cultural backgrounds

• Government statistics on success rates among English language learners

TESOL professionals are educated and experienced in the following:

• Applied Linguistics

• Second Language Acquisition

• Language Pedagogy

• A combination of all these fields

Allowing a newly-arrived student to your English class to circle picture responses rather than write words during a listening test

• Principle 1

  KNOW YOUR LEARNERS

• Principle 2

  CREATE CONDITIONS FOR LEARNING

• Principle 4

  ADAPT LESSON DELIVERY

• Principle 5

  CONTINUALLY MONITOR AND ASSESS LEARNING

Attending a conference to collaborate with colleagues and learn new methods of teaching and assessment:

• Principle 1:

  KNOW YOUR LEARNERS

• Principle 3:

  CREATE QUALITY LESSONS

• Principle 5:

  MONITOR / ASSESS L2 DEVELOPMENT

• Principle 6:

  PARTICIPATE IN COMMUNITY(IES)

  OF PRACTICE

A high school teacher brings textbooks in a variety of fields for learners to browse, select readings, and report on

• Principle 1

  KNOW YOUR LEARNERS

• Principle 2

  CREATE CONDITIONS FOR L2 LEARNING

• Principle 3

  DESIGN HIGH-QUALITY LESSON PLANS

• Principle 4

  ADAPT LESSON DELIVERY

The teacher "throws out" the lesson plan in favor of some remediation/review and differentiated learning:

• Principle 1

  KNOW YOUR LEARNERS

• Principle 2

  CREATE CONDITIONS FOR LANGUAGE LEARNING

• Principle 3

  DESIGN HIGH-QUALITY LESSONS

• Principle 4

  ADAPT LESSON DELIVERY

I think I'll come back to these 6 Principles later to (why? when?) ....