Teacher Training:Teaching English Learners (ESL EAL ENL EFL)

Name: Teacher Training:Teaching English Learners (ESL EAL ENL EFL)
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Guide to improving your ESL students' English Language Skills and Academic Performance

Created byAdriana Marston

Last updated 2/2025

English

What you'll learn

Implement instructional strategies that improve English Learners' writing skills
Learn ways to enhance your English Learners' vocabulary
Experience yourself the language learning process and understand why pointing out the strategies you learn in this course will help your students learn English
Enrich ALL your students' vocabulary and academic language use
Learn how to assist your English Learners with their writing practices
Understand your ESL students /English Learners

Course content

5 sections • 23 lectures • 1h 54m total length

Introduction1:21
Apply proven scaffolding strategies to improve reading, writing, listening, and speaking for English learners, with vocabulary enrichment and academic language development, including newcomer support when language barriers exist.
Introduction to Section 10:24
Explore how ESL students acquire language, especially newcomers who speak no English. Learn practical strategies to assist them in the language acquisition process.
What it means to be an English Learner in your class.6:04
Explore how English learners experience reading text, recognizing true and false cognates, and how visuals and cognate awareness support comprehension in multilingual classrooms.
Answers to Practice Activity1:50
Explore how visual supports help English learners grasp a text's gist, with examples of cognates and false cognates, through a story about twin sisters near Dracula's castle.
Meeting English Learners' writing needs3:28
Learn ways to help students face their challenges in writing

Introduction to section 20:14
Explore teaching practices and instruction strategies to help English learners understand the content you teach in the classroom, focusing on section 2.
What you should expect from your English Learners when it comes to writing ?3:50
Identify what level of English writing proficiency your students are at
Clear explanations of new content and tasks3:50
Teach learners to meet writing expectations with clear, step-by-step explanations (3–5 steps), using models and visuals; align oral and written directions, and include comprehension checks to guide effective summarization.
Strategies used to make new concepts clear for your ELs3:13
Use gestures, pictures, and objects to clarify concepts for English learners, model tasks, and integrate technology; employ repetition, chunking, and graphic organizers like Venn diagrams and K-W-L charts.

Introduction to Section 30:34
Explore the distinction between academic language and academic vocabulary, and learn how to empower English learners to replace social language with more academic writing.
Vocabulary for writing4:38
Provide student friendly definitions for target words, illustrate with usage, prompt students to create examples, and contextualize vocabulary by embedding definitions in sentences and varied activities, reinforcing through repetition.
What is Academic Language?9:02
Explore the difference between social and academic language, and see how academic language uses vocabulary, connectors, and tiered word categories to help English learners grow from social to academic writing.
Teaching Academic Vocabulary12:05
Expose English learners to academic vocabulary by immersing them in diverse texts and rich language environments, using word walls and sentence frames to practice content language in multiple contexts.
Vocabulary enrichment2:16
Using synonyms to enrich English Learners' vocabulary
What are collocations and why are they important for English Learners?3:45
Learn about collocations and why they matter for English learners, with examples like heavy rain, strong coffee, brief vs short, and choosing natural word combinations in context.
Scaffolding Writing for English Learners9:08
Learn to scaffold writing for English learners by connecting prior knowledge to new information, teaching vocabulary, using graphic organizers, and providing sentence frames, with an example about leaves changing color.

Introduction to Section 40:33
Explore section four activities that help english learners write from personal experiences and provide classroom support to boost their writing.
Paragraph writing6:27
Utilize the picture word induction model to guide students in labeling images, forming sentences and paragraphs, and using poems to elicit personal voice and observation.
Scaffolding practice. Teaching Newcomers12:00
Teaching newcomers through scaffolding, visuals, and cognates, the lecture demonstrates breaking texts into small chunks and using gradual release of responsibility to build comprehension.
Speaking and Writing Practices for Intermediate and Proficient ELs8:11
Explore speaking and writing activities for upper level english learners, including quick writes and turn-and-talk, plus I see, I think, I wonder prompts to discuss issues like bullying and drones.
New Language Standards13:05
Learn about the new 2020 Language Standards (This lecture is for those living in specific states in the United States only).
A Valuable Resource for ESL Teachers8:15
Explore an ESL teacher planner designed to keep student data, newcomer and incoming/outgoing transfer records, parent contacts, technology inventory, and meeting notes all in one place.

Requirements

Be a teacher who has English Learners/ESL students in their class
Are you a teacher who has Newcomer English Learners in their class? Do you feel that you can't help them, but would like to learn how to do it? This course is for you !
Willingness to help your students increase their English proficiency and scores
Be ready to learn with a positive attitude

Description

Have many of you teachers, would like to increase your ESL/EAL students' English proficiency in just one year? How would you like to have all your ESL/EAL students connect with you and acquire English due to the new strategies you apply in your teaching?

Whether you call it English as a Second Language, English as an Added Language, English as a New Language, or English as a Foreign Language, if ALL or SOME of the students in your class, are learning English, this course is for you!

Join me and learn some of the best practices you can utilize in order for your ELs to acquire English, as well as various ways you can assist them with their vocabulary and writing skills. This course will help you get to know your students and understand their instructional needs. You will learn what you should expect from your ESL students when it comes to writing, based on their current level of English proficiency and how to move them from their current level of proficiency to the level you want them to be in acquiring English. By the end of this course, you will feel confident about teaching writing and vocabulary to newcomers and intermediate level ESL students, as well as to advanced English Learners.

Who this course is for:

All General Education teachers who teach students that have English as their Second Language
Beginner teachers who would like to learn more about how to teach their EL students
Are you a new ESL teacher? This course is for you !
This course is not for you if you are an ESL student who wants to learn English

Teacher Training:Teaching English Learners (ESL EAL ENL EFL)

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Course content

Understand Your English learner's (EL's) Challenges and Needs5 lectures • 13min

Become Familiar with Your English Leaners' Writing Expectations4 lectures • 11min

Enrich Your Students' Vocabulary and Language7 lectures • 41min

Teaching Newcomers and Implementing Speaking and Writing to Support ELs6 lectures • 49min

Resources to Assist ELs with Their Writing Practices1 lecture • 1min

Requirements

Description

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