South East Glasgow Community Planning Partnership ESOL Initiative

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South East Glasgow Community Planning
PartnershipESOL Initiative
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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.
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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 learners 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.)

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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.

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Old and new initial assessment and placement
systems

• Old system

New system
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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)

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Informing Planning
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