Transcript ESOL Harbour Project

ESOL Harbour Project
What is ESOL
Why we made a film
How it feels to move to a new
country
Our idea for an ESOL Harbour
Survey results
What level was your English when you first arrived?
• Beginner (no English/a few words)
25.00%
• Access 2-3 (understand & communicate a little or ok)
41.67%
In Total
66.67%
----------------------------------------------------------------------------• Intermediate 1 or above
• I don’t know/I can’t remember
26.39%
6.94%
Survey results
How much tuition from ESOL/EAL did you have in your
first 3 months?
None
44.29%
1-2 hours p.w.
28.57%
3-4 hours p.w.
15.71%
1-2 days p.w.
4.29%
3 days or more p.w.
4.29%
I have just arrived/don’t know
2.86%
Survey results
How much ESOL support for young
people is needed in the first year in
Edinburgh?
There is enough now
A little more
A lot more
20.29%
47.83%
31.84%
Survey Results
During the first 3-6 months what would have been helpful as
an introduction to life in Edinburgh?
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Meeting other ESOL young people
Information about college/education
Meeting Scottish people
ESOL/English Tuition
Fun/Social activities
Visiting places in Edinburgh
Information about Jobs
Safe space/place
69.12%
66.18%
52.94%
51.47%
48.53%
44.12%
30.88%
26.47%
Why is this so important?
BICS & CALP
Basic Interpersonal Communication Skills &
Cognitive Academic Language Proficiency
It takes 2 years to develop fluency in
conversational English,
5-7 years to develop academic proficiency in
English if you are literate in your first language
and 7-10 years if not literate in your first
language
Professor Jim Cummings