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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).…
Read MoreNews 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…
Read MoreProposed 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…
Read MoreNow 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…
Read MoreLiteracy 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…
Read MoreIES_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…
Read MoreResearch to guide English language development instruction Saunders and Goldenberg.pdf This chapter by Saunders and Goodman summarises the existing research for teaching English to speakers of other languages in an effort…
Read MoreThe critical conversations about text – Joint construction! This workshop was well attended by 27 participants: educators from remote schools, urban and regional schools teaching all ages and in bilingual schools and…
Read MoreThe Symposium Kids, Creoles and Classrooms was co-convened by the NT ATESOL, the CRC-Remote Economic Participation – Remote Education Systems Project, Charles Darwin University and The University of Melbourne. The…
Read MoreHello ATESOL NT Members, I’ve received a copy of a great resource titled “Mother Tongue-Based Multilingual Education, Lessons Learned from a Decade of Research and Practice”. The resource is a…
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