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Type of paper: Book Review
Subject area: Education
Academic level: College
Style: APA
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Author: Julissa Burke
Date submitted: 2008-11-21 21:58:31
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Tags: article, education, english, best, esl, critique, Evaluation, Developing, American Psychological Association, Criteria, Rotheram Lyon
In this article , Denise McKeon highlights the different kinds of ESL
programs and the reasons for choosing them . With the number of ESL
students on the rise year after year , schools must institute many new
ESL programs . Apparently , these programs are very different from school
district to school district . The one thing that they have in common is
their minimal goal of making students capable of functioning in an
academic setting .
The first part of this article then deals with the factors that
influence what type of ESL program a district adopts . The first
consideration is the demographic makeup of the district . For example ,
some districts may have high concentrations of one particular ethnic
group or small numbers of people from various ethnic groups . Each
district must consider the number and size of its population , its
mobility , and other factors when choosing an ESL program . The second
consideration is individual student characteristics . What McKeon means
by this is that some students come from countries where they have had
great access to schooling and can both read and write in their native
language . Other students come from countries where they have had little
or no access to education . The third factor to consider is district
resources . Some districts have more money and a more diverse community
so that they can find more resources for ESL students . Some districts
are in a much worse state . Again , some districts have the space and
money to house separate ESL programs , and some are overcrowded as is .
All of these factors and more will determine what kind of ESL program
the district will develop .
The next part of this article discusses how ESL programs are
categorized - either ESL or ESL-plus . Basic ESL programs are pull-out
programs where students are put into a special class with other ESL
students and are taught English similar to the way other students are
taught a foreign language . The focus of the instruction is linguistic .
In some districts , students may get a few hours a day in this sort of
arrangement . In others , they may only get a couple hours a week . On the
other hand , the ESL-plus program , the instruction goes beyond a strictly
linguistic focus to some content area study too . Students usually get
more hours of instruction in this kind of program , and in some schools ,
a student 's whole day may be spent like this . The student would be
receiving language instruction as well as content area study .
In the next part of the article , examples of stand-alone ESL programs
are given . The first example is that of a pull-out program , which is
typically used in elementary school . The children are pulled out for
special instruction , although the teacher may or may not be trained in
ESL or bilingual . The second example is called class period instruction
and is typically used in middle school or high school . Students would
take ESL as a class , like an other class , and receive credit for it .
The third example...
 

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