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South East Glasgow Community Planning Partnership ESOL Initiative

South East Glasgow Community Planning Partnership ESOL Initiative. ESOL Initiative Aims. To ensure that citizens across the Southside of Glasgow have access to suitable, supported, quality ESOL provision with appropriate progression routes.

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South East Glasgow Community Planning Partnership ESOL Initiative

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  1. South East Glasgow Community Planning PartnershipESOL Initiative

  2. ESOL Initiative Aims • To ensure that citizens across the Southside of Glasgow have access to suitable, supported, quality ESOL provision with appropriate progression routes. • To establish, develop and maintain a network of ESOL providers and use this to share information, progress and signpost service users, develop ideas and services and share good practice. • To develop and maintain a database of ESOL provision and progression routes across the SE area and use this to identify gaps in provision. • To develop and monitor the quality of the provision and where appropriate, work with providers to increase the quality of provision.

  3. Initial Assessment, Advice and Placement Services “Effective initial diagnostic assessment tools should be used with all ESOL learners.”(ETLLD, 2007, p13) In SE Glasgow two systems operated: • Separate and prior initial assessment followed by placement (space permitting) in streamed level ESOL courses. (Used in college based provision representing 80% of delivery in SE area in terms of hours offered per week). • Direct entry to class (space permitting) with no initial assessment and the class teacher informally assessing the learner’s ESOL level as part of the course. (Used in both college and Local Authority community-based provision representing 20% of ESOL provision in the SE area in terms of hours offered per week.)

  4. Key Findings • There exists a lack of access to ESOL initial assessment and advice as this is linked to places existing on courses. • ESOL provision might be fully utilised as there is no system to provide prospective learners with information on provision in the SE Glasgow area. • There is no standardised naming of ESOL levels and no standardised ESOL initial assessment tool. Initial assessment results are therefore not transferable and this means that individual learners can be initially assessed multiple times.

  5. New system Old and new initial assessment and placement systems Old system

  6. Results so far • 147 learners initially assessed and provided with advice on learning opportunities. • 58.5% female, 41.4% male • Age range of 17 – 61 (average age 32) • 31 nationalities (28% Pakistani, 9% Polish) • Reason for learning English • Integration 65% • Work 21% • Study 14% • 67 learners placed in a class (46%)

  7. Informing Planning

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