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Advocacy: ATESOL NT submission to adult literacy inquiry

September 6, 2021

ATESOL committee members have worked on a supplementary submission to the national inquiry into adult literacy. We highly encourage you to read the submission: ATESOL NT Supplementary Submission to the…

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Professional Learning Opportunity – Intercultural Teaching and Learning

May 25, 2021

ATESOL NT is offering a PL in the last week of the July school holiday. Please refer to the following flyer for more information and registration.

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A New Publication: LIVING AND LEARNING IN A YOLNGU WORLD.

September 28, 2020

This is a new publication LIVING AND LEARNING IN A YOLNGU WORLD: RECOLLECTIONS AND REFLECTIONS, written by Beth Graham. The book is available for sale through ATESOL NT. Beth spent…

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Using ‘literacy’ approaches to teach English language to Additional Language/Dialect learners

May 15, 2020

It is not uncommon for teachers to ‘see’ EAL/D students through their  ‘literacy capability’ eyes. Until teachers are made aware of additional language developmental needs and the specialist area of…

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ACTA ADULT ESL SURVEY DEADLINE EXTENDED!

May 15, 2020

The response to the adult ESL survey has been good with responses totalling 349 (ACT 27; NSW 86; NT 3; Qld 68; SA 43; Tas 19; Vic 70; WA 33).…

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ATESOL NT Facebook

May 14, 2019

News for our Members and interested others! Our Facebook page continues to provide you with the latest information and advocacy fields If you want to keep up to date with…

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Proposed Australian Citizenship Legislation including a new compulsory English Test

July 14, 2017

Proposed Australian Citizenship Legislation including a new compulsory English Test. A Senate Inquiry is open till 21 st July. Members wanting to make submissions to the Inquiry are urged to…

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ATESOLNT Members login in to view and download articles and presentations

February 3, 2017

  Now available in the members area of ATESOLNT’s website:  The put it in writing workshop PowerPoint: The critical conversations about text – Joint construction   as presented at the ATESOLNT workshop, CDU…

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Cummins’ 2015 Literacy engagement framework

November 29, 2016

Literacy engagement framework Cummins_2015.pdf Cummins (2015) presents a synthesis of second language acquisition research findings in the form of a literacy engagement framework. The literacy engagement framework provides educators and policymakers…

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Effective literacy and English language instruction for ELLs

November 29, 2016

IES_Effective Literacy and English language instruction for ELL in the elementary years.pdf The Institute of Education Sciences (IES) have produced a range of ‘practice guides’. The aim of these practice guides…

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