Tag: learners
From Silence to Conversation: Breaking Down the Wall One Essential Shift at a Time
Dan: What is one of the most common barriers to facilitating the shift from silence to oracy for multilingual learners, and how can we...
Spanish Speakers Up 30%, Learners Up 60%
In the last decade, the number of Spanish speakers worldwide has increased by 30%, largely as a result of population growth in Latin America,...
Dyslexic Learners Inform Instruction
After 25 years as a classroom teacher of Spanish, German, and English, I decided to make reaching dyslexic students in the world language classroom...
Free Audio Skills Courses for a Million Adults
Cell-Ed has announced that is has partnered with the state of New York, the Barbara Bush Foundation, and the Dollar General Literacy Foundation to...
Bill in Congress Aims to Help ELL Teacher Shortage
The Reaching English Learners Act has been introduced in Congress in hopes of creating a solution to the national shortage of ELL teachers. The...
1 in 4 Students is an English Language Learner: Are We Leaving Them Behind?
Despite a push to train and recruit more bilingual teachers, school counselors, and school administrators, the US is facing a shortage of educators who...
Drawing on Ideas for Language Learners
Mark Oronzio suggests concept-mapping strategies for language learners
For more than 40 years, education researchers...
Bright Learners, Big Country
Kristal Bivona returns from China full of its promise
China is the future.
After a short time in one of its gargantuan metropolises, it becomes clear...
California ‘Failing’ English Learners
A California judge has ruled that it is the state’s obligation to ensure that school disticts provide language instruction to English language learners (ELLs),...
Bright Learners, Big Country
Kristal Bivona returns from China full of its promise.
China is the future. After a short time in one of its gargantuan metropolises, it becomes...
U.S. Education Department ‘Failing English Learners’
U.S. students who speak a language other than English at home and are still learning English have received scant support from the federal Department...
