-Hello, everyone:
 
The latest brief from the Center for Adult English Language Acquisition
(CAELA), Understanding Adult ESL Content Standards, by CAELA staff
member Sarah Young and by Cristine Smith from the National Center for
the Study of Adult Learning and Literacy (NCSALL), has been released and
can be found on the Web site at
http://www.cal.org/caela/esl_resources/briefs/contentstandards.html. It
can be downloaded in both html and in pdf formats. 
 

This brief defines different types of standards and describes the
instructional benefits of using adult ESL content standards. It also
describes uses of content standards in the adult ESL field and discusses
research about the implementation of content standards. 

 

Coming this fall: Another brief on content standards, Aligning Content
Standards with Instruction and Assessment for Adult ESL Instruction, by
Kirsten Schaetzel and Sarah Young.

 
Thanks.
 Miriam
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Miriam Burt

CAELA
Center for Applied Linguistics
4646 40th Street NW
Washington, DC 20016
(202) 362-0700, ext 556
(202) 363-7204 (fax)
miriam at cal.org