Review Essay: Evaluating ESL Software for the Inclusive Classroom, 2(6)

Authors

  • David L. E. Watt
  • Dora Foscolos

Abstract

This ESL software review essay represents a modest departure from conventional reviews. The essay proposes a series of criteria for making informed decisions about the process of selecting ESL software to support integrated classroom teachers meet the demands of inclusive classroom teaching. Our reason for writing such an article stems from our belief that classroom teachers and administrators play a distinctly different role in an inclusive educational model. They are required to access expertise from a variety of areas outside of their own. They are invested with the responsibility of making informed decisions in those areas. And they are faced with the complexity of managing a small staff of para-professinals, volunteers, parents and students, as part of their daily lives in the inclusive classroom setting. Our goal in this article is to assist teachers and administrators with this process by providing some principles and procedures that we have found useful in determining the best fit between our classrooms and available software. In addition to the criteria, we have included a range of ESL software series evaluations as a starting point.

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Published

1998-01-01

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