However, for some students, this can be more of a challenge because English is not their native language. By developing linguistic profiles that go beyond standardized testing and leveraging these ...

Spanish. Arabic. Chinese. Vietnamese. Portuguese. Russian. Haitian Creole. These are among the many, many languages spoken at home by students who attend schools across the U.S. For those who didn’t ...

About 1 in 3 students in California’s K-12 schools speak a language other than English at home and were not fluent in English ...

English Learners and the Science of Reading: What Works in the Classroom. Mar 04 Mon., March 04, 2024, 2:00 p.m. - 3:00 ... a group that promotes literacy development for English learners, ...

Regardless of their language backgrounds and academic challenges, children benefit enormously from support by trained EL teachers, Pasquarella said. “Some children who are English language learners ...

Changes to English-as-a-second-language (ESL) credit courses have been underway since the implementation of Assembly Bill 705, which nominally took effect in January 2018 and aimed to get ...

by Ruth Surenthiraraj In her Kuppi Talk article “The dispossession of a voice through English in Sri Lanka” (6 February 2024), Selvaraj Vishvika delves into the myriad troubles that accompany the ...

If you are curious about the world, the growing number of English Language Learners in your classroom represents a tremendous opportunity to connect with students from all over the planet as well as ...

English Language Learner students are outpacing the resources available in the Savannah Chatham County school ... Her 13-year-old son Alid is struggling to find his footing in the classroom. ...

In the 2021-22 school year, there were more than 42,000 English-language learners out of 420,000 students in Nassau and Suffolk school districts, or about 10%, according to enrollment data.

The school district’s 2023 data shows that English language learners in third through fifth grades had a 17.5 proficiency rate in reading English compared with 40.1 percent for native speakers.