Research
This section of TESL Ontario's web site is dedicated to sharing relevant research.
Promoting Learner Transitions to Postsecondary Education and Work:
Developing Academic Readiness Skills From the Beginning
By Betsy Parrish and Kimberly Johnson
Hamline University, St. Paul, Minnesota
March 2010
http://www.cal.org/caelanetwork/resources/transitions.html
Literacy, ESL and Canadian nation-building
By Douglas Fleming
Spring 2009 LITERACIES #10
http://www.literacyjournal.ca/literacies/10-2009/pdf/fleming.pdf
Teaching Grammar to English Language Learners: Focus on Form
By Amber Gallup Rodriguez (April 2009)
CAELA Network Briefs
http://www.cal.org/caelanetwork/pdfs/TeachingGrammarFinalWeb.pdf
A Study of Language Learner Needs and Barriers to Accessing Language Instruction for Newcomers to Canada (LINC)
Programs in Hamilton, Ontario
By Louise Gormley and Bhupinder S. Gill
http://atwork.settlement.org/sys/atwork_library_detail.asp?doc_id=1004636
Connecting Literacy and English as a Second Language (in Canada)
Discussion Paper by Sue Folinsbee (November 2007)
http://www.literacy.ca/themes/mcl/projects/linkages/linkages.pdf
Unsettled: Legal and Policy Barriers for Newcomers to Canada: A Joint Initiative of Community Foundations of Canada and the Law Commission of Canada (2006)
By Sarah V. Wayland
http://www.cfc-fcc.ca/doc/LegalPolicyBarriers.pdf
Renewing Toronto's ESL Programs: charting a course towards more effective ESL program delivery
Community Social Planning Council of Toronto (2005)
http://socialplanningtoronto.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/esl-programs.pdf
Reflective Language Teaching: From Research to Practice
Dr. Thomas S. C. Farrell is Professor of Applied Linguistics.
Research on ESL children has surprising results
GSE's Nonie Lesaux says non-native speaking kindergartners may read better. "Lesaux's study, published in the journal "Developmental Psychology" this month, tracked 1,000 children speaking native English and English as a second language (ESL) in mainstream English classrooms from kindergarten through second grade. With participants from across an entire school district in North Vancouver, Canada, the research is the first-ever longitudinal study to look at a population-based sample that took in a citywide sweep of social classes, immigrant populations, and native languages - 33 of them."
Assessing Learning Disabilities in ESL (pdf) Prepared by Pearl Pirie
Myths and Delusions The State of ESL in Large Canadian School Boards (pdf) by Mary Meyers, MainStreams Publications
Recent Research on Newcomer Youth by Elisete Bettencourt, Citizenship and ImmigrationCanada
Reshaping Literacies in the Age of Information (pdf) by Heather Lotherington, Associate Professor of Multilingual Education,York University
TESL Ontario releases its position paper on the Adult Education review in Ontario (pdf) by Shailja Verma, Past President
Special TESL Ontario Research Symposium Issues