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Turner, Marianne; Windle, Joel – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2019
This article explores the kinds of teacher knowledge promoted in TESOL-related curriculum standards in five jurisdictions (Australia and England at the national level, New York City and New York State in the United States, and Ontario, Canada, at the subnational level). Such documents are increasingly important in defining, and potentially…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Language Teachers, English Teachers
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Menken, Kate; Hudson, Thom; Leung, Constant – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2014
This symposium article, to which three authors contribute distinct parts, presents the rationale for standards-based language assessment and examines both the uses and misuses of language assessments in English-speaking countries that are engaged in standards-based education reform. Specifically, they focus on the assessment of emergent bilinguals…
Descriptors: Standards, Educational Change, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Leung, Constant; Harris, Roxy; Rampton, Ben – TESOL Quarterly, 1997
Integrates theory, research, and practice in a discussion of language and identity for adolescent bilingual and multilingual learners within urban classrooms in England. Presents recent research in cultural theory to offer insight into the complex relationship among ethnicity, identity, and language use, and offers a framework for analysis to…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, English (Second Language), Ethnicity, Foreign Countries
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Baynham, Mike; Simpson, James – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2010
The extensive literature on classroom-based second language learning makes little attempt to situate the classroom itself in social and multilingual sociolinguistic space, in the complex and iterative networks of encounters and interactions that make up daily life. Daily life is routinely evoked and "brought into" the classroom as a…
Descriptors: Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Testing, Human Geography
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Field, John – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2008
There is considerable evidence from psycholinguistics that first language listeners handle function words differently from content words. This makes intuitive sense because content words require the listener to access a lexical meaning representation whereas function words do not. A separate channel of processing for functors would enable them to…
Descriptors: Psycholinguistics, Second Language Learning, Linguistic Input, Language Processing
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Deterding, David – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2005
In Singapore, many people are not familiar with Estuary English (EE), the variety of English becoming popular in much of southern England. In the current study, when students listened to interviews with EE speakers and were asked to transcribe orthographically what they heard, most of them had severe problems. Features of pronunciation that…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Pronunciation, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning