Learning English is fun and creative. But it can be challenging at times when you don’t have a partner to practice with. You may worry about making grammar mistakes. You may not even know if you are ...

Over ten percent of the student population in the United States is comprised of English Language Learners. Given that reality, the role of a student’s home language merits discussion. Use of students’ ...

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A recent study out of Philadelphia tracked kindergartners who were learning English and found that four years later there were major discrepancies between which groups of students had mastered the ...

The new “question-of-the-week” is: What is the role, if any, of an ELL student’s home language in the classroom? In Part One of this series, Melissa Eddington, Wendi Pillars, Tracey Flores, Sandy ...