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Professional Resource Catalogue: Annotated Resources

Shenikah Grandison

EDU 653.30 Second Language Acquisition.

Mary Mills

Post University
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First 10 Annotated References

Unknown (2016) Five stages of second language acquisition. Concordia University. Retreived:
http://education.cu-portland.edu/blog/news/five-stages-of-second-language-
acquisition/

This website reviews briefly the five stages of language acquisition and the
meaning behind it. Before reviewing the five stages the website gives a brief
overview on the mechanics of second language acquisition.

Robertson, K., Ford, K. (2017) Language acquisition: An overview. Retreived:

http://www.colorincolorado.org/article/language-acquisition-overview

This website also discusses the five stages of second language but goes in depth.
This page covers the instructional strategies for each stage as well.

Colorin Colorado (2017) Colorin colorado: A bilingual site for educators and families for
english language learners. [site] Retrieved: http://www.colorincolorado.org/

Excellent website used for parents, administrators and parents to help their
children learn English the best way the can. The site has an amazing amount of
information ranging from the basics of ELL to books and authors anyone can read
on ELLs.

Haynes, J. (2017) Everythingesl.net: Lesson plans. [site] Retrieved:

http://www.everythingesl.net/lessons/

Here teachers and instructors can use the lessons plans provided on this site to
teach their students a range of topics. The site has 42 content based ESL lesson
plans for beginning through intermediate students.

New Teacher Center (2005 Dec) Six key strategies for teachers of english-language learners.
Alliance for Excellent Education. Retrieved:
https://uteach.utexas.edu/sites/default/files/files/SixKeyStrategiesELL.pdf

This pdf was created to give instructors key strategies that they could use to
facilitate learning for their students. There are six areas ranging from Vocabulary
and language development to modeling, graphic organizers and visuals.

Center for Advanced Research on Language Acquisition (2017) Strategies for language
learning. University of Minnesota. Retrieved: http://carla.umn.edu/strategies/

This site provides many resources that can be used to learn more about second
language acquisition. The topics range from SLA and technology to how one can
assess second language acquisition.
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Unknown (2011) Teaching strategies for english language learners. SupportRealTeachers.org.

Retrieved: http://www.supportrealteachers.org/strategies-for-english-language-
learners.html

With videos and sources this site has great resources for teachers and instructors on how and
what one communications to their ESL student.

Reed, B., Railsback, J. (2003 May) Strategies and resources for mainstream teachers of english
language learners. Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory. Retreieved:
http://educationnorthwest.org/sites/default/files/ell.pdf

The 43 page pdf documents lays out the many strategies that teachers can use to facilitate
learning for the ELLs in mainstream classrooms. This document also goes of the
policy implications that affect ELLs

Shoebottom, P. (2017) Second language acquisition - essential information. Frankfurt

International School. Retrieved: http://esl.fis.edu/teachers/support/cummin.htm

On this site Shoebottom (2017) goes into depth the issues that mainstream teachers have to face
when teaching ELLs. Topics such as task difficulty and common underlying
proficiency issues are discuss amongst others.

Ballantyne, K.G., Sanderman, A.R., Levy, J. (2008). Educating English language learners:
Building teacher capacity. Washington, DC: National Clearinghouse for English
Language Acquisition. Retrieved:
http://www.ncela.gwu.edu/practice/mainstream_teachers.htm.

The pdf document is a government report that covers how to build teacher capacity in regards to
ELLs. Amongst others, topic discussed are curriculum instruction and content
assessment.

De Oliveira, L.C., Shoffner, M. (2017) Courageous literacy: Linguistically responsive teaching

with english language learners. Voices from the Middle, 24 (3).
- This article reviews linguistically responsive teaching (LRT) which include the
elements of LRT. Additionally the article includes the employment of LRT with
ELLs, diversity in linguistics and a description of what is courageous literacy.

Gonzalez, J. (2014) 12 ways to support english language learners in the mainstream classroom.
Retrieved from: https://www.cultofpedagogy.com/supporting-esl-students-
mainstream-classroom/
- Gonzalez discusses the 12 ways that mainstream teachers can facilitate learning
with ELLs in the classroom. Some of these points include: Making lessons my
visual, build in more group work and communicate with the ESL teacher. These
points seem very helpful to a teacher who has an ELL student for the first time.
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Gilbert, J.B. (2011) [video] Teaching pronunciation: Seven essential concepts with judy b.
gilbert. The New School. Retrieved from:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BPmjGHdK5v8
- Gilbert discuss how language instructors face several problems when teaching
pronunciation, including time constraints and the difficulty of designing effective
tasks. Additionally, she suggest practical solution and outline concepts in teacher
pronunciation.

Guzman, R. (2016) [video] Teaching english without teaching english. TEDxTalks. Retrieved:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pZa6R3rmRQ
- Guzman discusses how to teach students how to speak english without actually
making them think about English. The speaker goes into how they have to
investigate how people speak with logical.

Johnson, T., Wells, L. (2017) English language learner teacher effectiveness and the common
core. Education Policy Analysis Archives, 25 (23/24)
- This study discusses the systemic issues that face teachers and ELL students
regarding the common core as well as the efforts that are made to resolve such
issues. The solution is a developmental credential and multicultural training
outlined highlighting policy change, systematic evaluation and in-service teacher
training.

Ouellette-Schramm, J.R. (2016) Developmental diversity in the academic language-learning

experiences of adult english as a second or other language learners. Adult
Education Quarterly, 66(3)
- This study asked how adult experience academic language in the classroom and
how does it relate to their constructive-developmental perspective. The study
found that participants heald diverse developmental perspectives, which made a
qualitative difference in academic language learning experiences.

Pappamihielm E.N., Lynn, A.C. (2016) Adaptions for english language learners: Differentiating
between linguistic and instructional accommodations. TESL-EJ, 20 (3).
- It is different for schools and districts to specifically understand the necessary
accommodations need for ELLs. This study was an attempt to examine how
mainstream teacher feel about different types of accommodations needed my
ELLs.

Schoenberg, I.E. (2013) [video] Communicative grammar for multi-level english language
learners. The New School. Retrieved from:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ArxrGKIkM3c
- Schoenberg discusses how to work with students with different levels of
understanding in grammar. She reviews that this can be done with questioning
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techniques and providing open-ended tasks will allow more students to become
actively involved in class.

Turkan, S. (2016) In-service teachers reasoning about scenarios of teaching mathematics to

english language learners. Mathematics Enthusiast, 13 (1/2).
- This study investigates the way teacher think when teaching mathematics to
students who are considered ELLs. What is discussed in the article are the
assumptions as to how math teachers engage their ELL students, methodology to
acquire data and an analysis of the results.

WhatWorksDubai (2017) [video] How we use effective strategies for teaching esl learners.
Retrieved: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k79CHlTnGaw
- The speaker review what her school in Dubai teaches with regards to her ELL
students and the different effective ways to teach English. What she discusses is
academic language and social language and the importance of both.