Introduction to the ESL Scope and Scales

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Introduction to the ESL Scope and Scales
DECS Language Multicultural Education
Portfolio Professional Development Resource
Materials for ESL
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Introduction to the ESL Scope and Scales

• The SACSA Framework and ESL students
• Who are ESL learners?
• The needs of ESL Learners and variables that
  affect their language learning
• Links betweens SACSA Standards and ESL Scales
• How were the ESL Scope and Scales developed?
• Benefits of using the ESL Scope and Scales
• Who uses the ESL Scope and Scales?
• Language demands of SACSA
• The model of language in the ESL Scope and Scales
• Structure of the ESL Scope and Scales

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The SACSA Framework and ESL students
From the Introduction for each Learning Area of
the SACSA Framework

• In supporting teaching and learning for ESL
  students and in assessing their performance,
  educators should use the Scope and Standards in
  this Band, in conjunction with the Scope and
  Scales for ESL.

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Who are ESL learners?

• Defining ESL learners in relation to the SACSA
  Standards

Yes
No support required
Has the student achieved the Standard in the
Learning Area?
Is he / she of non-English speaking background?
Is Standard Australian English an issue?
ESL learner
No
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Needs of ESL Learners
I need to be able to use the right English
I want my knowledge valued.
I find it hard to move between my family life
and school life.
I want to understand and take part in school and
community issues.
I need to feel safe so that I am not ashamed of
being wrong.
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Variables affecting language learning

• proximity to Australian
• society
• proficiency of first
• language
• proximity of first
• language to Standard
• Australian English
• prior educational
• experience
• learning environment
• religious and cultural
• beliefs
• life experience

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Links between the SACSA Standards and the ESL
Scales
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How were the ESL Scope and Scales developed?

• Outcomes for each learning area for each Standard
  were examined for their language requirements
• This language is made explicit in the ESL Scope
  and Scales.

ESL Scope and Scales
ENGLISH
ARTS
LANGUAGES
HEALTH P.E.
DESIGN AND TECHNOLOGY
SOCIETY ENVIRONMENT
MATHS
SCIENCE
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Benefits of using the ESL Scope and Scales

• The ESL Scope and Scales
• highlight the specific language needs of ESL
  learners within the curriculum
• provide a common framework for teachers to talk
  about the language demands within the learning
  areas
• assist teachers with programming for ESL
  learners
• inform teachers methodology
• support teachers to report on ESL students
  language and literacy development

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Who uses the ESL Scope and Scales?

• ESL teachers
• Teachers who have identified that they have ESL
  learners in their classroom

ESL learning needs
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What are the language demands of SACSA?
Science 4.6 Explores how living things have
changed over geological time and debates the
value of species diversity and the ethics of
human intervention.
description
argument
oral debate
written discussion
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What are the language demands of SACSA?
Science 4.6 Explores how living things have
changed over geological time and debates the
value of species diversity and the ethics of
human intervention.
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What are the Strands of the ESL Scope and Scales?
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What is the model of language for the ESL Scope
and Scales?
Science 4.6 Explores how living things have
changed over geological time and debates the
value of species diversity and the ethics of
human intervention.
There are choices to be made about

• text type -

Genre

• technicality -

What - Field
Who - Tenor

• position -

• medium -

How - Mode

ESL learners need to develop control of Standard
Australian English to make these choices.
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Text in Context and Language comparison
Text 1 Im gunna clear that paddock What? Y
ou know, that one. That stinks.
Text 2 The rapid deterioration of the diversity
of native flora and fauna can be directly
attributed to the proliferation of detrimental
land management practices.
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Field
The what of a text is FIELD. Field refers to
the content. Field continuum everyday
fields..specialised fields..highly
technical fields
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Tenor
The who of the text is TENOR. Tenor is
concerned with the relationship between the
participants of a text. Tenor continuum informal
.increasing formalityformal familiar
..unfamiliar
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Mode
The how of the text is MODE. Mode refers to how
the text is communicated. Mode Continuum most
spoken.most written
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Text in Context
Language
Genre
range of genres

• language to
• structure a text
• build cohesion
• expand information

Field (What)
technicality

• verbs
• noun groups
• technical vocabulary
• nominalisations

Tenor (Who)
position

• possibility
• certainty
• attitude

Mode (How)
medium

• foregrounding
• tense
• voice - active and passive
• print conventions

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Structure of ESL Scope Scales

• BANDS Early Years, Primary Years, Middle Years,
  Senior Years
• INTRODUCTION
• SCOPE - KEY IDEAS
• SCALES - OUTCOMES
• GLOSSARY

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Links between the Strands, the Scope and the
Scales
Scope
Scales
Text in Context
Language
Text in Context
Language
Outcome
Genre
Key Idea
Genre
Key Idea
Genre
Field
Field
Field
Key Idea
Key Idea
Outcome
Tenor
Tenor
Tenor
Outcome
Key Idea
Key Idea
Mode
Key Idea
Mode
Key Idea
Mode
Outcome
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ESL Scope Scales
Programming ESL SCOPE

Assessing ESL SCALES
Reporting ESL SCALES