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- Title: Toward Quality ESL Education.
- Author : TESL Canada Journal
- Release Date : January 22, 2007
- Genre: Education,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 204 KB
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Introduction ESL learners have established a strong presence in Canadian education. Of the 1.8 million immigrants who arrived during the 1990s, 17% were schoolaged children between 5 and 16 (Statistics Canada, 2003). Further, many Canadian-born children and youths are raised in immigrant households, contributing to the 10.5% of the population with home languages other than English or French (Statistics Canada, 2002). As immigrants tend to concentrate in large urban areas, with 94% living in metropolitan centers (Statistics Canada, 2003), major urban school jurisdictions have experienced drastic increases in their populations of students with an ESL background. For example, between 1986 and 1996, ESL enrollment in British Columbia schools soared 334% (Dwyer & Steel, 1997). In the Calgary Board of Education, the number of identified ESL students has accelerated from 6,803 in the 1998-1999 school year to 17,613 in the 2005-2006 school year, marking an increase of 259% (Calgary Board of Education, 1998, 2005). What is more, the reported figures are in all likelihood conservative, because there are no standardized procedures for identifying and assessing ESL learners in schools (see Table 2).