English Learners

Student engagement has never been more important than it is right now. Unfortunately, it’s also never been more challenging to engage students as we continue to adapt to at least some form of remote learning.

Across the country, the pandemic has forced us all to transition to remote learning. This fall, classrooms will be either fully or partially remote, and like it or not, everyone has had to adjust: teachers, administrators, students, and parents.

The pandemic has shed new light on the ways schools and districts engage, teach, and measure the success of emergent bilingual students, also known as English language learners. 

Across the country, everyone is adjusting to remote learning. While each district’s learning model may look different, from fully in-person to fully remote, every school is most likely incorporating some form of remote learning for those students who need it.

Education technology is an ever-growing field that attracts high-profile investors, skeptical researchers, and curious teachers. After all, technology is already an integral part of everyday life for many of today's students, so why not harness it in the classroom? Although English Learners (ELs) may not be the first students to...

Many researchers have determined that labeling immigrant students as English language learners establishes conditions for failure as they experience the inequity of our school system. For years, ELL students have been regarded as students who come with a deficit, or gaps, in their knowledge. The assumption is that these students...

In his 2019 piece for The Nation magazine, North Hollywood High School senior Scott Lee noted: “It’s easy to forget that the United States has no official language.” Writing from the perspective of a non-native English speaker, Lee recounted how he was able to “understand everything” in the Koreatown neighborhood...

Rochester, Minnesota-based teacher Laura Lenz works with English Learners (ELs) at a center for students who are immigrants and refugees. In a blog post on the website Cult of Pedagogy, Lenz posited the following: Imagine a school where we focused on the strengths of English language learners. What if these...

Millions of K–12 students in the United States are non-native English speakers or English learners (ELs), a status that has historically been seen as a deficit or problem requiring correction. Indeed, as teacher and linguist Kristen Lindahl wrote in a post for the TESOL blog, “While the overwhelming majority of teachers...

There are students who are English Learners (ELs), there are students who have dyslexia... and there are also ELs who have dyslexia. In a video presentation on the subject of EL students who may also have dyslexia, Dr. Fumiko Hoeft of the University of California, San Francisco discussed the difficulty...