e s o l curriculum frameworkfor adult basic education（l e s o课程frameworkfor成人基本教育）.docVIP

Massachusetts Adult Basic Education Curriculum Framework for English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) Massachusetts Department of Education Adult and Community Learning Services December 2005 Table of Contents Acknowledgements 3 Introduction: Who Are Our Students? 5 Understanding This Document 6 Core Concept 8 Guiding Principles 9 Habits of Mind 15 Strands and Standards 17 ESOL Strands and Standards Chart 29 An Important Note about Benchmarks 31 Appendix A: ESOL Framework Glossary 59 Appendix B: Charts of the Listening, Speaking Reading and Writing Strands and Standards, by Levels 70 Appendix C: Teacher Vignettes 96 Appendix D: Student Performance Level (SPL) Descriptors 106 Appendix E: Internet Resources 114 Appendix F: Equipped for the Future 116 Appendix G: Massachusetts ABE Curriculum Frameworks Strands 119 Acknowledgements The ESOL Curriculum Framework in Adult Basic Education evolved in Massachusetts over a period of ten years. During that time many people – teachers, students, program directors, consultants from the School for International Training, SABES staff and staff from the division of Adult and Community Learning Services at the Department of Education – have made valuable contributions. For their knowledge, dedication and energy we thank the following individuals. The original team that developed the 1999 draft framework included: Dulany Alexander Donald Freeman Linda Gosselin Kathleen Graves Dot Gulardo Lee Haller Roger Hooper Diane Larsen-Freeman Joan LeMarbre Alice Levine Andrea OBrien Rebecca Pomerantz Alison Simmons Heide Spruck Wrigley, Consultant Widi Sumaryono Leslie Turpin, Project Leader Connie Tumavicus Wagner Veillard Lynne Weintraub Eileen Witkop  Participants in the Adult ESOL Curriculum Field-testing Projects, 1999 included: Practitioner Research Group: Peggy O’Brien Chris Luongo Loretta Pardi Rebecca Pomerantz Sr. Marion Cotty Joanna Scott Chrsitine Taylor Alison Simmon