Students say teachers who want to improve their instructional skills for English-language learners should try listening to them. Betty Smallwood, a former ESL teacher, presented a video at the annual ...

Nearly 3 in 4 American classrooms now includes at least one English-language learner, and these students make up roughly 1 in 10 public school students. While their numbers continue to rise quickly, ...

With a substantial increase in the numbers of English language learners in schools, particularly in countries where English is the primary use first language, it is vital that educators are able to ...

Teaching grade-level content to students who have just arrived in the United States and whose English skills are limited is a difficult task. High school-level content specialists especially have ...

Though Maria Cosme’s Allegheny Valley students speak more than half a dozen languages from four continents, one tongue unites ...

Katrina Lujan’s 13-or-so seventh-graders appeared lively last Friday afternoon as they laughed and joked with one another during a class break at Challenger Middle School. While most of the students ...

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The current issue of Education Week magazine focuses on how immigrant students who are classified as English language learners are changing the landscape of American education. Nebraska and Grand ...

LANGUAGE educators are aware of the four macro skills they need to teach students: listening, speaking, reading and writing. In modern times, particularly in the advent of computers, two more skills ...

In 1998, Ron Unz, a Silicon Valley millionaire and former gubernatorial candidate, set out to abolish bilingual education in California. Fueled by an anti-immigrant climate, Unz spearheaded a ...

About 1 out of every 10 public school students in the United States right now is learning to speak English. They're called ELLs, for "English Language Learners." There are nearly 5 million of them, ...

For the second time in two years, a school board member in Hampton Roads is under fire for claiming that devoting resources to students who are not native English speakers harms overall education ...