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 work to overcome it?
Tonya: This shift is about changing habits,...
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, and the number of learners of Spanish as a second...
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 the focus of my efforts. I found that two mistakes...
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 provide one million adult learners with free skills courses. The...
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 act would create a grant program under Title II of...
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 can support issues relevant to English language learners.
English language learners — often...
Drawing on Ideas for Language Learners
Mark Oronzio suggests concept-mapping strategies for language learners
For more than 40 years, education researchers have advocated the use of concept mapping as an effective...
Taking the Holistic Approach
Margarita Calderón and Shawn Slakk believe that the whole school is responsible for the success of English learners
English learners (ELs) are no longer solely the responsibility of the ESL teacher. The entire school’s staff...
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 that China is banking on the future by investing in...
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), and that so far California has failed nearly 20,000 underserved...