This Power Point Presentation explains an assignment to undergraduate students enrolled in a TESOL-training course. It explains to the general public what it is like being a TESOL.

1. Critical Assignment 1:
ESOL Language Analysis
and Report
What’s it all about?
By Mary Acevedo, M.Ed., TESOL

2. What is it like to be a TESOL?
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Where does a TESOL begin?
• She gets to know each of her ELLs.
• Look at each student’s background to discover
his previous experiences with schooling, with
literacy, with the US culture, etc.
• Mini-case studies: Norma, Lijuan, Ismael

3. What is it like to be a TESOL?
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What is a typical workday like for a
TESOL? How does a TESOL go about
teaching ELLs?
GUARANTEED:
• You will have ELLs from more than one country.
• Your ELLs will have different native languages.

4. What is it like to be a TESOL?
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GUARANTEED:
• You will have more than one proficiency
level in your class.
Some students will know no English.
 Some students will know some English.
 Some students will know a lot of English.
 Some studens will have BICS.
 A few students may have CALP.
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5. What is it like to be a TESOL?
How can you teach ELLs?
Ausubel: meaningful learning!
• Personalized feedback
 What you tell each student will be
individualized.
Skinner/Lado: Contrastive Analysis!
• Each student is unique and has his own unique
problems based on his L1 and how it interferes
with L2 learning.
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6. What is it like to be a TESOL?
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What do you teach ELLs?
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Listening
Reading
Speaking – pronunciation, grammar
Writing – grammar, formation and
presentation of ideas
CALP!!

7. Critical Assignment 1:
ESOL Language Analysis and Report
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Report 1 of this critical assignment
will show how you would teach
pronunciation to two ELLs.
Report 2 will show how you will
teach grammar to two ELLs.

8. For each report:
• First, the TESOL will compare and
contrast the ELL’s native language to
English
Report 1: compare sounds
 Report 2: compare grammar
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• Second, provide meaningful feedback –
suggest activities for ELL to do based on
L1 and L2 similarities and differences

9. Being a TESOL is not easy. It requires
a lot of hard work. But if you follow
the assignment instructions and ask
me questions, you will find out how
much of a difference a TESOL can
truly make in his or her students’
lives!

10. Being a TESOL is not easy. It requires
a lot of hard work. But if you follow
the assignment instructions and ask
me questions, you will find out how
much of a difference a TESOL can
truly make in his or her students’
lives!