Toward a holistic approach to supporting English learners in universities A response to: John Beaumont’s (Vol. 2, No. 1, 2015) “ENG 101 instructors’ perspectives on the ESL experience”

Abstract

Beaumont (2015) analyzes a seminar for community college writing instructors that investigated the challenges the instructors had in addressing the needs of their ESL learners. Only one of the seminar participants had experience teaching ESL students or taking courses in TESOL pedagogy, and the seminar provided the instructors with a necessary space to ask questions about ESL learning and to learn about the varied needs and linguistic backgrounds of their students.