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How do you describe or understand the stages of an ESL student and how they move through them towards ‘native speaking’?

Thank you! I have a scheme given to me from 1990 that outlines a description of the characteristics of ESL students as they move through the 4 stages. When I get a chance I’ll snap a photo and share as I’m interested to see if it’s outdated. I am not a trained ESL teacher but I do my best to support my ESL students by differentiating the tasks to their abilities. I find my students struggle most with writing as they are saturated with listening, reading and speaking (practicing play-scripts and reading aloud) but simple playing letters, syllables they find challenging, feel like we could have a whole class devoted to the strategies of word construction with scrabble...anyways thank you for your professional insight from a green teacher!

Do you find it also affects your feet with checking heal?

Where did it start and spread for you? What was the timeline and process like for a diagnosis?