CATESOL Presentation

Presentation 

Presenter

Schedule

Introduction

Institutional Stories

California 

• CCSF ESL Student Profile
• Top Content Courses
• California Pathways Reading Descriptors
• CCSF Reading Objectives

Washington

• GRCC Top 20 Classes
• GRCC Student Profile
• GRCC Competencies

• CCP Student Profile
• CCP Top Disciplines
• ESL Reading at CCP

Florida

• EAP Student Profiles Matrix
• EAP Course Profiles Matrix
• Reading Competencies Matrix
• Miami-Dade College Reading Competencies
• Top 100 Courses for EAP Students
• MDC - Institutional Story
• Guidelines for Writing Competencies

Georgia  - 

• Georgia Reading Proficiency Levels and Competencies
• GPC Institutional Story

Sharon Seymour and Laura Walsh

John Avery

Challenges of Content Materials

• Psychology Course Outline - CCSF
• Reading Demands in Content Courses
• Academic Load
• Cognitive Load
• Psychology Textbook

Evaluation of ESL Materials 

ESL/ Developmental Texts

          Reading Matters  p. 101     102

          Amazing Stories  p. 120  121  122

          Academic Literacy  p. 230  231  232

Sharon Seymour and Laura Walsh

10:35 - 10:50

The Learning Community Model

• Learning Communities Demonstration

Materials Creation

• Corpus Linguistics Will Change the Way We Teach
• The Web Profiler
• EAP Reading Skills Activities Overview

References

• Genre Analysis and Teaching Academic Reading

Sharon Seymour

John Avery