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Integrating Reading And Writing For Florida's Esol Program, George Douglas Mcarthur
Integrating Reading And Writing For Florida's Esol Program, George Douglas Mcarthur
USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations
ABSTRACT
This thesis examines an incongruity that exists within Florida's ESOL program. While the curriculum standards direct teachers to "develop and integrate" skills in speaking, listening, reading and writing, student promotions to higher fluency levels are based solely on reading assessments. Listening assessments are also required to "determine instructional needs," but writing assessments are not required and, in most cases, not given. As a result, reading is prioritized, writing is subordinated, the connection between the two skills is broken, and the mutual benefits of integration are lost.
Studies conducted during the last 50 years have consistently shown that the integration …