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50 Years of ERIC
50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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Telling Tales: Discursive Space and Narratives in ESOL Classrooms
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Simpson, James – Linguistics and Education: An International Research Journal, 2011
This paper is about narrative and identity in classes of English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL). ESOL students, adult migrants to the English-dominant West, are positioned by policy and by their institutions primarily as potential employees and as test-takers. The paper considers ways in which ESOL students negotiate and perhaps resist the…
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Classroom Communication, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language)
Differing Expectations in the Assessment of the Speaking Skills of ESOL Learners
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Simpson, James – Linguistics and Education: An International Research Journal, 2006
This is a study of the assessment of the speaking skills of adult learners of English for speakers of other languages (ESOL). It is prompted by a concern that participants can have differing expectations of what nature of speech event a speaking test actually is. This concern was identified during the administration and analysis of assessments…
Descriptors: Oral Language, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Adult Students