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A new research brief from Rice University’s Kinder Institute for Urban Research has found that English learners have the most success when they stick with a single program — regardless of program type — and skills from their home language are incorporated in their education.
Games can be a great way to learn a second language.
Proposed changes to the New South Wales English syllabus reinforce the misguided idea that the teaching of language and literacy skills should fall chiefly to English teachers, leaving other teachers to focus more on their subject content.
The Need for Re-engaging English Learners Socially and AcademicallyAs K–12 educators transition to in-person instruction after two years of pandemic disruption, careful attention is rightfully being devoted to addressing students’ social–emotional learning (SEL) needs and academic voids. Schools are striving earnestly to provide safe and supportive havens for re-engaging youths who have suffered tremendous learning loss and social isolation. English learners count among the students who have been most victimized by distance education, leaving them at profound risk of intractable learning loss. The prolonged social isolation they experienced interrupted their development of English language, literacy, and subject matter (Sugarman and
Released: 25 March 2022 A new resource to support autistic children who are bilingual or are learning English as an additional language has been co-created by West Sussex County Council and the University of Chichester.
New Mexico’s long struggle to strengthen educator workforce continues, especially in high-need classrooms.
Some California teachers and researchers say tests must be carefully designed to avoid misdiagnosing dyslexia in students who are learning English.
Multilingual Education - San Diego County Office of Education
Elementary and secondary school teachers in most states in the US must have a degree in education with an endorsement or add-on certification in ESL. Certification requirements can be obtained from state departments of education and may be reciprocal from state to state. University teacher-training programs offer the required courses and are another source of information regarding state certification requirements.Here are some key features of certification in states where there is a high or fast-growing demand for EL educators: CaliforniaEL/Cross-Cultural Language and Academic Development (CLAD) ProgramTeachers at all grade levels and in all content areas working in California must complete
The benefits of bilingual education are well documented. But experience shows that adapting it to your child’s needs is the only way to make it work for fostering cultural identity.
This article reports on a study that examined the effectiveness of an intervention using text messages to enhance the academic vocabulary acquisition of English …
“It is well known that proficiency in a foreign language seldom comes to one not instructed at an early age, and experience shows that this is not injurious to the health, morals or understanding of the ordinary child.” Meyer v. Nebraska (1923) In US schools, English enjoys overwhelming hegemony. Granted, “standardized” English enjoys power and prestige over other, racialized, native US varieties, such as AAVE and even local “Spanglishes,” but their combined power leaves precious little space for the languages of other cultures and families, whether from immigrant or indigenous lands. The US ignores those languages to such an extent
The goal of schools like Janet Kahn School of Integrated Arts is to help kids advocate for themselves, think for themselves, and question.
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As the popularity of dual immersion bilingual schools grows, we must also help English learners and their families understand that these programs can benefit them, too.
"The attack on anything that allows more participation and moves us toward equity is going full force," the scholar said.
What is language learning anxiety and how does it affect people?
Effective bilingual programs strengthen students' literacy in students'home language while building their academic English skills.
To help connect educational innovations with the learners who want and need them most, the America’s Languages Working Group is launching a first-of-its-kind online resource on March 14. The America’s Languages Portal: Model Programs and Practices Advancing Access and Equity in US Language Education (www.americaslanguages.org) is a registry of programs that can be emulated and adapted by on-the-ground efforts across the country to introduce students from diverse populations to effective language instruction. The portal collects advances in pre-K–12, college and university, and community-based language education, specifically the advances that improve access for more of the nation’s neglected learners and languages.The idea is to prove that it is possible, even
BOSTON, March 08, 2022--A 2020 report from the U.S. Department of Education stated that the number of Emergent Bilinguals – also known as English language learners – in U.S. public schools has increased by more than a million since 2000. A recent study on the Lexia® English Language Development™ (Lexia English) program found that emergent bilingual students who used the program scored an average of 15 points higher than nonusers on the English Language Proficiency Assessment for California (ELPA
Lawyers representing plaintiffs in landmark education suit say it's tough to determine how new legislation addresses suit's claims without a detailed plan from the state.
UNRIC spoke to Dr. Eleonore Smalle (Ghent University, Belgium) about the recent findings in the field of language learning.
\ Because learning a new language is often a multiyear effort, learners require regular and consistent ways to understand their progress and link that progress back to the broader aim of being able to speak and write in the new language. Persistence in learning a new language is key to getting from those first halting vocabulary words into true fluency. Student goal setting provides a context, vocabulary, and set of systems that can help students achieve that persistence. Language researchers and educators have been at the forefront of exploring how goal setting works (Lee and Bong, 2019; Moeller et al.,
In the midst of the pandemic, teachers are stretched incredibly thin. In addition, districts are taxed with extra time spent on contact tracing and social–emotional needs of the students and staff. Needless to say, finding time for professional development that is systematic and job embedded can be a daunting task, especially while navigating needs for concurrent instruction and shortages of substitute teachers.Here in District 73.5, an approximately 1,100-student district just outside the Chicago city limits, leaders had to find creative ways to provide teachers with professional learning opportunities to support the 250+ students with linguistic needs, covering 60+ languages.Here are
A team of researchers conducted a quantitative meta-analysis to examine the effect that teaching with English songs has on L2 vocabulary learning in second and foreign language classrooms. The study has been published in the ‘Language, Culture and Curriculum Journal’. For this study, Dr Dennis Murphy Odo, an Associate Professor at Pusan National University, extracted […]
With Hispanics and Latinos representing not only more students than ever before, but more voters than ever before too, policymakers need to ensure that our schools and school systems are meeting the needs of this rapidly growing and critically important demographic.
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