Similarities Differences In TESOL And WIDA Standards

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SIMILARITIES DIFFERENCES

TESOL STANDARDS

WIDA STANDARDS Both TESOL and WIDA standards have grade level breakdown: PreK-K, 1-2, 3-5, 6-8, and 9-12. And both are broken down by English level proficiency.

Both have similarly levels of proficiency.

Both focus on assessing language through content through reading, writing, speaking, and listening.

Their focus in reading is to process, understand, interpret and evaluate written language, symbols and text through understanding and fluency.

In writing, their focus is in written communication to that deals with different of situations for different choices of purposes and audiences. The same applies for speaking, with the only difference from written to verbal communication.