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English Language Learners
Recent Articles
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Educational Leadership
 Schooling, Interrupted (2007)
The authors describe programs that fill in the learning gaps of students whose formal schooling has been interrupted.
Helping Young Hispanic Learners (2007)
Children in the youngest and largest ethnic group need universal prekindergarten, rich language programs, and bilingual teachers.
Schools in Transition (2007)
From sex education to dealing with racism, four schools share strategies for responding to diverse students' needs.
Special Report: Focus on Adolescent English Language Learners (2007) (full text)
Education research has concentrated on elementary-level ELLs, and education policymakers have often overlooked the needs of the growing population of older language-minority students.
A Catch-22 for Language Learners (2006) (full text)
NCLB sets impossible hurdles for students with limited English proficiency.
A Tale of Unintended Consequences (2006)
To raise fluency scores, this teacher threw out good practice.
Learning to Think in English (2006)
Question-seeking activities invite students to hypothesize in a new language.
Connecting with Latino Learners (2006)
Educating language learners requires encouraging them to make connections among languages and cultures.
Educating Language Learners (2004) (theme issue, several articles in full text)
Among the topics covered in this issue are bilingual immersion and differentiating instruction for English language learners.
Education Update
Teaching Diverse Students Requires a Big Menu (2007)
Increasing Reading Comprehension of English Language Learners (2006)
ResearchBrief
Effectiveness of Programs for English Language Learners (2005) (full text)
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Books
Getting Started with English Language Learners: How Educators Can Meet the Challenge
Whether you're new to teaching English language learners or an old hand, here's a guide that provides you with a firm baseline and can't-miss strategies for boosting the achievement of these students. Read more.
Check out the Study Guide for this book.
Classroom Instruction That Works with English Language Learners
At last, the research-based strategies from ASCD's best-selling book Classroom Instruction That Works are applied to teaching English language learners to help you boost the achievement levels of these students. Read more.
Listen to the author talk about this book.
Meeting the Needs of Second Language Learners
Cut through the confusion and controversy surrounding the teaching of students in a multilingual society, and set a sound course for your second language development program with the principles and advice from this book. Read more.
Check out the Study Guide for this book.
Fifty Strategies for Teaching English Language Learners, 2nd Edition
Explore 50 research-based, classroom-tested strategies that English-speaking teachers can use to help English language learners understand content materials while they acquire English-language skills.
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Audios
Leading Schools with ELL/ESL/LEP Students
Get this bundle of six presentations to hear how school districts are responding successfully to increasing student populations of ELL/ESL/LEP learners.
Teaching in Classrooms with ELL/ESL/LEP Students
Listen to these five presentations to discover innovative new approaches to improving the learning performance of students who struggle with the English language.
Succeeding with ELL/ESP/LEP Students
These five presentations update you on the best new approaches to use with students who struggle with speaking, reading, or writing English.
English Language Learners: What Do Teachers Need to Know?
The challenges of learning are enormously greater for children who arrive at U.S. schools not speaking English. English language learners (ELLs) can eventually achieve at high levels, but their learning will proceed faster and more surely if teachers and administrators know the answers to the critical questions addressed in this session.
Be Successful with English Language Learners
In this session, review the teacher-friendly teaching and assessment tool used by thousands of teachers in California. Learn a practical approach to adapt it for your classroom in your state.
Active Learning for Teachers: Success for English Learners
This presentation explores the use of strategies field-tested with Spanish, Hmong, Khmer, and Russian speakers in lower-socioeconomic public school classrooms.
Designing Instruction for English Language Learners in the Mainstream
What do we know about the process of learning a second language? What impact does NCLB have on English language learners? Answer these and other questions as you explore ways to help ELL students experience success.
English Language Learners in the Mainstream Strategies That Work
Virginia Rojas reflects on ways to build an ecologically responsive environment for ESL and non-ESL students alike.
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Videos
Raising the Literacy Achievement of English Language Learners
Use this new program to help mainstream teachers and other educators in your school raise the literacy achievement of English language learners in all grade levels.
Maximizing Learning for English Language Learners
Here's a professional development tool that will help teachers and administrators address the needs of English language learners (ELLs). Use the DVD and the Facilitator's Guide to create workshops and presentations that inform teachers and other audiences of proven approaches.
A Visit to a Classroom of English Language Learners
Spend a day at a world-renowned bilingual school—the first dual language public school in the United States—to get an up-close-and-personal tour of the programs and practices that are proven to be successful for students who are learning English.
The Lesson Collection: Tape 35, Language Arts (Paragraph Structure) (Primary Grades)
In this lesson, a third grade bilingual teacher demonstrates how to help students work toward their goal of English proficiency.
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Mixed Media
Educating Linguistically and Culturally Diverse Students: An ASCD Professional Inquiry Kit
Use of this kit in smaller groups offers participants the opportunity to learn and apply new ideas on educating linguistically and culturally diverse students. Explore common theories, research, and practice important to educating diverse student populations, including techniques for ESL learners.
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Professional Development Online Courses
English Language Learners in the Mainstream: Strategies That Work
This seven-lesson course prepares teachers to work more effectively with English language learners in mainstream classes.
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External Resources
Key online resources and recent research
Education Week Issue Page on English Language Learners (free registration required)
This page provides an up-to-date summary of the issue from the editors of Education Week magazine, plus links to recent Education Week articles on the topic and outside Internet resources.
English Language Learners: Boosting Academic Achievement
This 2004 issue of Research Points, from the American Educational Research Association, summarizes the research on increasing achievement for English language learners.
Effective Reading Programs for English Language Learners: A Best-Evidence Synthesis
This 2003 report is a review of experimental studies of reading programs for English language learners, with a focus on comparisons of bilingual and English-only programs and on specific, replicable models. The review finds that existing evidence favors bilingual approaches, especially paired bilingual strategies that teach reading in the native language and English at the same time. Produced by the Center for Research on the Education of Students Placed at Risk.
A National Study of School Effectiveness for Language Minority Students' Long-Term Academic Achievement Final Report
From the Center for Research on Education, Diversity & Excellence, this five-year research study (1996–2001) is an overview of language minority students' long-term achievement, depending upon the type of program in which these students are placed.
Strategies and Resources for Mainstream Teachers of English Language Learners
This issue of By Request, from the Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory, focuses on practical, research-based principles and instructional strategies that mainstream teachers can use to meet the needs of English language learners.
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