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Hi I'm currently doing an OU module in TESOL, working towards my MEd, and as part of this am required to conduct a small scale research project. It's connected to curriculum design and focusses on the use of the ESOL curriculum materials. The aim is to investigate whether ESOL teachers and learners find the National ESOL Curriculum the most useful and effective tool for teaching and learning English, the extent to which the needs of ESOL learners are met and, at a subsidiary level, if the distinction made between materials referred to as ESOL and EFL is useful in designing a curriculum for ESOL learners. I hope to find how successfully ESOL teachers feel the ESOL curriculum materials match their learners’ needs, particularly in light of the changing nature of ESOL learner characteristics, including socio-cultural and educational background factors, as a result of the expansion of the EU and changing global politics. As a teacher involved with ESOL teaching, I have found that using the ESOL materials with different groups of ESOL learners has had different levels of positive learner response to the topics and language focus contained in the ESOL curriculum. A group of diverse learners, such as is often found in an ESOL group, requires teaching material addressing such diversity and the ESOL National Curriculum was designed for this purpose; I hope to discover how far ESOL practitioners feel this has been achieved. It would be really helpful if you could spare 5 minutes to complete the attached questionnaire - and I'd be very grateful! Although it may appear lengthy it is just 14 questions, to which you only need to tick boxes. If you would like to add any comments in the relevant boxes as well, or in an email, all info would be gratefully received! The information will be treated confidentially and anonymously; the findings will form part of my research project for the OU, but won't be used in any other way. Many thanks for your help, I do (or will!) appreciate it! Elaine *********************************** ESOL-Research is a forum for researchers and practitioners with an interest in research into teaching and learning ESOL. ESOL-Research is managed by James Simpson at the Centre for Language Education Research, School of Education, University of Leeds. To join or leave ESOL-Research, visit http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/ESOL-RESEARCH.html A quick guide to using Jiscmail lists can be found at: http://jiscmail.ac.uk/help/using/quickuser.htm To contact the list owner, send an email to [log in to unmask]