Students, for whom English is a second language, are a growing segment of the Canadian school population. ESL services should be provided in a manner that respects students’ language and culture of origin and builds on students’ existing abilities. Premier tools provide a student-centered approach to learning and include features that support students who are learning English. 

ESL students are defined as those whose primary language(s) or language(s) of the home, is other than English and who may therefore require additional services in order to develop their individual potential within the school system. There are no typical ESL students. They come from many linguistic and cultural backgrounds and have had a wide variety of life experiences and attributes. As such, it is impossible to apply a “one size fits all solution. Premier tools are designed to support online and digital content. They include tools that will read aloud from virtually any file format as well as from internet sources. These same tools can provide translation features in a number of different languages, which include English, French and Spanish.