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• Teaching English as a Foreign Language: Questions and Answers


• ESOL in Adult Education Interest Section (AEIS)


• Refugee Concerns Interest Section (RCIS)


• English for Specific Purposes Interest Section (ESPIS)


• Standards for Teachers of Adult Learners


• Professional Equity Issues


• Resources for Advancing Your Career


• Awards and Grants


• TESOL Publications for Educators


• Conferences and Events

Access the Latest Adult Ed Documents:

• Standards for Adult Education ESL Programs
  What are the components of a quality education ESL program? TESOL's Standards for Adult Education ESL Programs answers this question by defining quality components from a national perspective. Using program indicators in eight distinct areas, the standards can be used to review an existing program or as a guide in setting up a new ESOL program.
• Discuss Your Views: TESOL Quarterly Forum Online
  Subscribers can access an online bulletin board to discuss topics raised in the TESOL Quarterly Forum.
• New Ways in Teaching Adults
  This volume offers teachers new ways of looking at tasks for adult learners by organizing the activities according to the sources of input. These sources range from the formal input of direct teaching to language collected by students in out-of-class tasks. Teachers using this volume will offer their adult learners integrated, communicative, and enjoyable tasks that enhance their study of English.
• Position Statement on the Redesign of the U.S. Citizenship Exam (October 2004; PDF)
  TESOL urges test developers to continue to seek guidance from adult educators at each step to ensure that the test is fair and appropriate for the many examinees who have limited experience with formal education and standardized test formats.
• Adult ESL Language and Literacy Instruction: A Vision and Action Agenda for the 21st Century (October 2001)
  This discussion, which complements From the Margins to the Mainstream: The Action Agenda for Literacy (National Literacy Summit, 2000), focuses on the characteristics and needs of adults learning English as a second language, the programs that serve them, and the policies that affect them. Teachers of English for Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) envisions a system for the education of adult English language learners that provides high quality language and literacy services for this linguistically and culturally diverse population.
• PACE Yourself: A Handbook for ESL Tutors
  PACE Yourself is for inexperienced or volunteer tutors of ESL. This handbook does not aim to make overnight experts of novices. Rather, the authors provide an easy-to-follow guide for people who want to tutor small groups of nonnative speakers of English but do not know how.
• Position Statement on Professional Equity for the Field of Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (October 2003; PDF)
  TESOL is in favor of commensurate salaries, benefits, working conditions, and workloads across disciplines in order to foster academic and intellectual equity and integrity in academic institutions and in society at large. This position statement was approved by TESOL's board of directors in 2003.
• Consumer Protection Agency Project
  TESOL is working with the Consumer Protection Agency of the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) on a community service project to provide information on fraud-related issues.
• Using Harry Potter in the Adult ESL Classroom
• Guide to Professional Development in TESOL
  The paths to professionalism in the field of TESOL are as diverse as the profession itself. This guide helps orient readers towards opportunities to enhance professionalism.
• English for Specific Purposes
  English for specific purposes (ESP) opens up rich opportunities for English teachers and researchers in new professional domains. Whatever one's teaching context, these case studies offer much to learn about curriculum and course planning, implementation, and evaluation.
• CALL Essentials: Principles and Practice in CALL Classrooms
  In CALL Essentials, Joy Egbert discusses the principles and practice of using computer-assisted language learning in all levels of classroom instruction. She offers practical advice on how computers and the Internet offer innovative teachers exciting ways to enhance their pedagogy and capture their students' attention.
• Visit the U.S. Advocacy Action Center
  TESOL's U.S. Advocacy Action Center includes detailed information on the U.S. Congress including a congressional directory, legislation and bills, and communication tools.
• Position Paper on Equitable Treatment for Part-time, Adjunct, and Contingent Faculty (March 2003, amended June 2006; PDF)
  TESOL has long opposed excessive use and exploitation of part-time, adjunct, and contingent and adjunct faculty, because it undermines academic quality and freedom and respect for teaching.
• Position Statement on Degree-Granting Credit for ESL Courses (June 2000; PDF)
  TESOL advocates that degree-granting credit be awarded to ESOL students for successful completion of coursework in English as a second or foreign language in institutions of higher education.
• How to Get Copies of TESOL Quarterly Articles
  Information for subscribers and nonsubscribers on where to get copies of individual TESOL Quarterly articles.

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