Tag: esl
Lorena McElwain to Run Federal English Language Office
Lorena Orozco McElwain has been appointed Assistant Deputy Secretary, Office of English Language Acquisition (OELA), U.S. Department of Education by Education Secretary Betsy DeVos.
Prior to joining the federal government, McElwain was as an ESL/Spanish/Italian...
Co-teaching Strategies for Remote Learning 101
Gayle Hammer, an ELL teacher in Chicago Public Schools, along with Jennifer Estrada, , Elizabeth Laverde, and Caitlin Sheehan have created resources to improve collaboration and student learning in co-taught classrooms during remote learning....
Free Resources in English and Spanish for U.S. Census Bureau’s Statistics in Schools Week
Statistics in Schools (SIS) Week, which will take place March 2-6, is a program of the U.S. Census Bureau designed to educate students about the importance of the Census. The Census Bureau has called...
Experts Not Hopeful on Vietnam’s English Targets
Education experts are expressed concern that the targets set for Vietnam’s foreign language proficiency are set to fail at a recent meeting on English teaching at colleges and universities held by the education ministry,...
The ESL Makeover
Danny Brassell gets over himself to make learning fun for all ages
When I first began teaching elementary school, my principal asked me if I knew any Spanish. After I replied, “Un poquito...
Acquiring Academic Literacy from the Inside
Throughout the U.S., there is a sizeable population of international students from mainland China studying at colleges and universities. Among the varied difficulties during the process of adjustment to the host...
ESL and STEM through CALL
Published by Rowman & Littlefield, Teaching ESL and STEM Content through CALL: A Research-Based Interdisciplinary Critical Pedagogical Approach by Abdelilah Salim Sehlaoui addresses the growing need for effective critical pedagogical competence (CPC), critical technological...
Two Teams Share $7M Adult Literacy XPRIZE
XPRIZE, in partnership with the Barbara Bush Foundation for Family Literacy and the Dollar General Literacy Foundation, has announced two grand prize winners of the Adult Literacy XPRIZE, a multi-year, multi-phase competition focused on...
Bill May Relax AZ English Immersion
2/19/19 UPDATE: Arizona’s House Education Committee has unanimously approved HCR 2026, which would give Arizona voters the opportunity to repeal the state’s English-only instruction law.
Arizona’s Senate Education Committee has approved Senate Bill 1014,...
Second Edition of New Ways in Teaching Speaking
TESOL Press, the publishing division of TESOL International Association, recently released the much-anticipated second
edition of the New Ways in
Teaching Speaking. Edited by Julie Vorholt, this latest addition to the
popular New Ways series includes more...