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The Field of ESOL Virginia Adult Educator Certification Program
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World Englishes
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Inner Circle England Ireland United States Australia New Zealand Canada Outer Circle India Pakistan Nigeria Philippines Expanding Circle Most of the rest of the world
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The Teaching of World Englishes ESL ESOLEFL
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The Foreign-born Population in the United States Pew Hispanic Center, 2007 U.S.Virginia Total population 301,621,0007,712,000 Native- born 263,572,7036,938,215 Foreign- born 38,048,456773,785 %12.610.3
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Virginia’s Foreign-born 10 % (773,785) of Virginia's population in 2007 13.0 % of Virginia's civilian employed workforce in 2006 Virginia ranks 11th in U.S. More than 80 % are in Virginia legally.
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Virginia’s Foreign-born Frederick (5th) and Loudoun (9th) Counties, VA ranked in the top ten U.S. counties for percent growth in foreign-born population (2000 to 2006). The largest share were from Asia (39.8%). 36% from Latin America The top three countries of birth: – El Salvador – Mexico – Korea
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English Proficiency of Virginia Residents
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The Cost of Low English Proficiency The Lexington Institute
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The Cost of Low English Proficiency Quick Facts Currently over 11 million ELLs in U.S. with over 5 million in elementary and secondary schools An estimated 113,569 students fail to graduate each year due only to lack of English skills. LEP wage penalty between 3.8% and 38.6 % Nearly $65 billion in earnings lost annually due to inadequate English skills for LEP adults.
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ESOL + Adult Education Service Providers: Local Programs Community- based Programs Community Colleges Prisons and Jails
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OAEL (VA) Funded Programs TOTAL STUDENTS 68 Programs Reported Fiscal year 2007 - 2008 ABE11,354 ASE4,574 ESOL15,012 Total30,940
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ESL Degrees and Certificates MA TESL K12 Endorsement BA TESL BEd with TESL Emphasis PhD TESL PhD Applied Linguistics Professional Certificates
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Research in Second Language Acquisition Applied Linguistics Socio- linguistics Psycho- linguistics Phonetics Corpus Linguistics Neuro- linguistics
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–VATESOL – http://vatesol.cloverpad.org/http://vatesol.cloverpad.org/ –WATESOL – http://watesol.orghttp://watesol.org
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Sites Consulted Pew Hispanic Center –http://pewhispanic.org/http://pewhispanic.org/ Migration Policy Institute –http://www.migrationpolicy.org/http://www.migrationpolicy.org/
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The Field of ESOL Virginia Adult Educator Certification Program
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