MIDDLE SCHOOL

ESOL

Description of the Lake Braddock Middle School ESOL program:

The middle school ESOL program comprises a range of courses to meet the cultural, linguistic, and academic needs of middle school English Language Learners. ESOL is a service that is provided to students to develop their academic language proficiency. ESOL students are assigned an English proficiency level based on their individual assessment data. Students move to the next level when they meet assessment criteria. The ESOL program promotes high achievement for ESOL students by providing appropriate, comprehensible, academic instruction and by supporting students in both the mainstream classroom and in sheltered instruction.

Faculty:

Chair: J . Rodriguez-Walhout	JRodriguezWalhout@fcps.edu
Cioffi, Tammi	Tammi.Cioffi@fcps.edu
Grady, Joan	JEGrady@fcps.edu
Hanlon, Mary	MJHanlon@fcps.edu

Resources:

FCPS Middle School English for Speakers of Other Languages	http://www.fcps.edu/is/esol/secondary.shtml
Korean and Spanish Hotline Flyers	EnglishKorean.pdf (126.266 Kb) EnglishSpanish.pdf (92.619 Kb) Flyer_Korean.pdf (210.646 Kb) Flyer_Spanish.pdf (141.066 Kb)
Fairfax County Public Library	http://www.fairfaxcounty.gov/library/

Students learn English more quickly and effectively if they maintain and develop their proficiency in their home language.

reading skills transfer from the first language to the second language
reading provides knowledge of the world that makes second-language texts more comprehensible
reading for pleasure in the first language transfers to the second language

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