Welcome to Rural ESOL Matters.
Many schools in urban areas have
enough funding for a comprehensive ESOL program taught by certified ESOL
professional teachers. Students in these programs often have a
high degree of success being mainstreamed into a regular student
population.
Rural schools, on the other hand,
often have only one ESOL classroom that employs only one teacher.
Often these teachers have never been trained to teach ESOL and are
forced to do the best they can with the knowledge and resources at hand.
This makes teaching ESOL in rural school systems an entirely different
matter with unique problems and a different population of students.
Nevertheless, ESOL teaching in rural areas matters just as much as ESOL
teaching in the more populous urban school systems.
This Periodical is specifically
designed to address issues about ESOL teaching in rural school systems.
In addition, it is enhanced with multimedia to aid in comprehension and
provide examples of lessons, drills, pronunciation difficulties, and
other topics pertinent to ESOL that are better expressed and explain
with sound or video. Please browse the articles by clicking on a
title to the right.
