Date: 25-Jan-2006 From: Michael Newman <mnewmanqc.edu> Subject: US K-12 TESOL Program Standards Debate
In the latest issue of TESOL Quarterly, I co-wrote a critique of the recent Standards created by TESOL (the international ESL professional association) in collaboration with NCATE (National Council for the Accreditation of Teacher Education) for accreditation of K-12 ESL teacher education programs in the US. Suresh Canagarajah, the TQ editor, has established an area for discussion of this issue in the TQ Forum website. Since a substantial number of linguists are involved in ESL teacher education in one form or another, there may be substantial interest in this discussion. Therefore, I would like to point interested readers in the direction of our article and discussion.
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My hope is to develop a serious discussion aimed at developing a more coherent and rigorous system for ESL teacher education program accreditation than the one put forward by TESOL.
Michael Newman Associate Professor of Linguistics Dept. of Linguistics and Communication Disorders Queens College/CUNY
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