[eal-bilingual] EAL and assessment

Luan
You may want to look at the initial teacher education part of the NALDIC
website.  The section on assessment
http://www.naldic.org.uk/ITTSEAL2/teaching/Assessment.cfm has a brief
overview of some of the issues, plus links to some of the other English
speaking country models of assessment which can be a bit hard to track down
if you don't already know where they are.  In the Online Assessment
Resources section you can find links to Queensland's Bandscales, TESOL ESL
standards and Victoria's steps and the Ontario stages.  
Nicola

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From: eal-bilingual-bounces at lists.becta.org.uk
[mailto:eal-bilingual-bounces at lists.becta.org.uk] On Behalf Of Luan Porter
Sent: 10 September 2007 18:26
To: eal-bilingual at lists.becta.org.uk; graham.smith737 at ntlworld.com
Subject: RE: [eal-bilingual] EAL and assessment

HI
I'm new to this mailing list.
I've been following this discussion with some interest.
The 'Stages of English' (ie 1-5) were introduced in Scotland just 2 years 
ago. Since this time we (ie the EAL practitioners) and mainstream colleagues

have been required to use them to make an annual return on all bilingual 
pupils (that's the theory at least). Obviously there are some 'challenges' 
with these stages and I'm about to have another look at LIC but would also 
like a recommendation of where to find out more about the Australian 
assessment systems you speak of, and also to ask in which LEA would I find 
best practice in this area?

Many thanks
Luan

(Headteacher of City of Edinburgh EAL Service)