{"id":317,"date":"2022-11-15T14:00:31","date_gmt":"2022-11-15T14:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/ealinsw\/?page_id=317"},"modified":"2022-11-28T09:08:34","modified_gmt":"2022-11-28T09:08:34","slug":"esol","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/ealinsw\/useful-websites\/esol\/","title":{"rendered":"ESOL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>ESOL<\/strong> stands for English for <strong>Speakers of Oth<\/strong><strong style=\"font-size: 1rem\">er Languages<\/strong><span style=\"font-size: 1rem\"> and is an SQA National Course aimed at Senior Phase Pupils for young people who speak English as an Additional Language. It is offered at :<\/span><strong style=\"font-size: 1rem\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-327 size-full alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/public\/ealinsw\/uploads\/sites\/11318\/2022\/11\/15141845\/SQA-ESOl-Nat-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"189\" height=\"267\" \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>National 2, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sqa.org.uk\/sqa\/73004.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SQA ESOL National 2 Course Overview<\/a><\/p>\n<p>National 3,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sqa.org.uk\/sqa\/48590.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SQA ESOL National 3 Course Overview<\/a><\/p>\n<p>National 4,<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sqa.org.uk\/sqa\/47404.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SQA ESOL National 4 Course Overview<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong> National 5 (exam)\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sqa.org.uk\/sqa\/47411.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SQA National 5 Course Overview<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Higher level (exam) \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sqa.org.uk\/sqa\/47905.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SQA Higher ESOL Course Overview<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>and it focuses on developing key language skills of <strong>speaking<\/strong>, <strong>listening,<\/strong> <strong>reading<\/strong> and<strong> writing.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Further Resources\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Excellence Gateway<\/strong>. You will find a lot of great support resources, success stories and information about living in the UK at <strong>Excellence Gateway\u00a0<\/strong>website\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/esol.excellencegateway.org.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ESOL Excellence gateway<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Bell Foundation <\/strong>(free membership) ESOL programme offers a wide range of resources for ESOL students with the focus on developing life skills; form filling, conversations at the GP etc. Check their website for further resources at <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bell-foundation.org.uk\/esol-programme\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Bell-Foundation<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ESOL stands for English for Speakers of Other Languages and is an SQA National Course aimed at Senior Phase Pupils for young people who speak English as an Additional Language. It is offered at : National 2, SQA ESOL National 2 Course Overview National 3,\u00a0SQA ESOL National 3 Course Overview National 4,SQA ESOL National 4 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18385,"featured_media":0,"parent":31,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-317","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/ealinsw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/ealinsw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/ealinsw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/ealinsw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18385"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/ealinsw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=317"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/ealinsw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/317\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":340,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/ealinsw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/317\/revisions\/340"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/ealinsw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/31"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/ealinsw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}