Developing a Badge System for a Community ESL Class Based on the Canadian Language Benchmarks

Teaching multilingual, multilevel language classes presents many challenges including helping students learn level-appropriate language. This learner-centred approach is complicated in a multilevel classroom where the teacher cannot always focus on each student’s needs. As a result, learner motivati...

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Published in:Canadian journal of applied linguistics 2020-01, Vol.23 (2), p.228-236
Main Authors: McCollum, Robb Mark, Reed, Elena Tornar
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adult Basic Education
Adult Education
Adult learning
Adult students
Benchmarking
Check Lists
Classrooms
Curricula
Curriculum development
English (Second Language)
English as a second language
English as a second language instruction
Feedback
Feedback (Response)
Foreign Countries
Grouping (Instructional Purposes)
Immigrant students
Immigrants
Language Acquisition
Language Proficiency
Language Skills
Language Teachers
Learning Motivation
Motivation
Multilingualism
Second Language Instruction
Second Language Learning
Skills
Student Centered Learning
Student Evaluation
Student Motivation
Teachers
Teaching
Teaching Methods
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Summary:Teaching multilingual, multilevel language classes presents many challenges including helping students learn level-appropriate language. This learner-centred approach is complicated in a multilevel classroom where the teacher cannot always focus on each student’s needs. As a result, learner motivation and attendance are frequent problems. This article details the adaptation of the Canadian Language Benchmarks (CLB) into a badge system to help learners in a community English as a Second Language (ESL) program set and track personalized language learning goals. The authors explain the purposes of badges, including motivation and assessment, and describe how to create a CLB-based badge system for curriculum and assessment purposes. The authors also share feedback from students and instructors in the community ESL program about the badge-based curriculum.
ISSN:1481-868X
1920-1818
DOI:10.37213/cjal.2020.30438