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2030 NAEP Writing Assessment Recommendations
To support multilingual learners of English (MLEs), The Center for Applied Linguistics (CAL), TESOL International Association, and WIDA have made the following recommendations for and comments on the 2030 National Assessment of Education Progress (NAEP) Writing Assessment Framework: Anchor the asses…
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Multilingual Mysteries: Should we expand or diminish the role of assessment for multilingual learners? – Center for Applied Linguistics
If testing (rather than assessment) continues to prevail as what ‘counts’, and schools measure multilingual learners’ progress from only a restricted accountability perspective- that is from score to score- without considering the other purposes, audiences, and contexts for assessment, what ultimate…
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Multilingual Mysteries: Is it counterintuitive to assess in multiple languages when accountability rests in English? - Center for Applied Linguistics
Do you consider it counterintuitive to assess in multiple languages when accountability rests in English? Read this week's blog and submit your answer!
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Classroom Management
Learn Your Learners | TESOL | International Association
A get-to-know activity to increase engagement in online synchronous language classes
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Team-Building Activities to Help Students Reconnect in the Classroom
As students return to school after a tumultuous year, here are tips to help them re-engage and ease back into the classroom.
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Co-teaching
Clarifying the Science of Reading
For at least a half-century, there has been a great deal of discussion about how children learn to read. While policymakers, curriculum developers, educational leaders, and those in the media have been using this discussion to drive headlines and policy, reading scientists across the world have been...
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Dual Language Learning
Complex Languages May Shape Bilingual Brains Differently
In a recent study published in the journal Science Advances, French researchers examined how bilingual people neurologically process their respective languages in written form. The study carried out by a team of clinical neurologists, neuropsychologists and researchers, and funded by the Agence Nati...
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Equitable Practices for ELs
Students with disabilities often left out of popular 'dual- language' programs
Advocates say it's both a missed opportunity and discrimination
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How to Develop Culturally Responsive Teaching for Distance Learning | KQED
Culturally responsive teaching is a powerful way to help students become independent learners, and it can be especially valuable during distance learning.
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Early Childhood ELs
Early Childhood Programs Failing English Learners
A policy brief from the Migration Policy Institute’s National Center on Immigrant Integration Policy finds that despite requirements under federal civil rights law to overcome language barriers, the country’s major early childhood education and care (ECEC) programs often fail to require collection o…
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Language Learning
Multilingual Mysteries: Is it counterintuitive to assess in multiple languages when accountability rests in English? – Center for Applied Linguistics
Do you consider it counterintuitive to assess in multiple languages when accountability rests in English? Read this week’s blog and submit your answer!
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Reading Development
The Science of Reading in Dual Language
“Literacy has two beginnings: one, in the world, the other, in each person who learns to read and write.”—Margaret MeekThis quote has continued to rewind and repeat in my mind as a more than 50-year research “war” re-emerges to declare to the educational world that science has definitely and univers…
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How the Science of Reading Works for English Learners | Lexia
Bilingual students are becoming more common in U.S. classrooms, and educators should know all the amazing strengths they bring with them. Learn about how the science of reading works for English Learners and how to support them in your classroom.
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Clarifying the Science of Reading
For at least a half-century, there has been a great deal of discussion about how children learn to read. While policymakers, curriculum developers, educational leaders, and those in the media have been using this discussion to drive headlines and policy, reading scientists across the world have been…
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The Role of Oral Language in Literacy Development–Language Magazine
Supporting young children’s language and literacy development has long been considered a practice that yields strong readers and writers later in life. The results of the National Early Literacy Panel’s (NELP) six years of scientific research synthesis supports the practice and its role in language…
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Teaching Strategies
ESOL Teacher Sheila Majdi: Using Sentence Frames with ELLs
Sheila Madji explains what a sentence frame is and how she might use this strategy with ELLs.Check out more Colorin Colorado content at: https://www.colorinc…
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A Strategic Approach to Correcting Pronunciation Errors | TESOL | International Association
Oral corrective feedback on L2 pronunciation requires teachers to act strategically so that they don’t discourage learners, and contribute to their language development.
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Conversation Starters
Your students, invigorated by your passion for learning a foreign language and developing cultural competency, move to the foreign country where their target language is spoken, live and study in full immersion, achieve fluency in no time, and become self-actualized global citizens full of empathy a…
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COMMENTARY: Research must guide how we teach English learners to read
The research shows that both native English speakers and bilingual students who are learning English must learn how to connect the oral sounds in words to the letters that represent those sounds, then connect that connection to the words’ meanings. But, English learners need additional support.
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