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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This article addresses the relationship between educational theory-as manifested in particular ideologies of teaching and learning-and classroom practice. Based on an ethnographic study of ...

A significant demand for well-trained English as a second language (ESL) teachers exists throughout the United States. In areas such as education, business, hospitality and many more, the ...

Almost one in 10 U.S. students in grades K-12 — about 5 million children total — are pulling double duty in school, learning English as a second language while absorbing math, science, social studies ...

In her Kuppi Talk article “The dispossession of a voice through English in Sri Lanka” (6 February 2024), Selvaraj Vishvika delves into the myriad troubles that accompany the imposition of standards on ...

I remember it clearly--the time I got chewed out (by my principal) for using ‘inappropriate’ language in the classroom. I had been working with my students on a wonderful piece of music by Robert ...

This study follows four English language learners as they make their way across their first year of pre-kindergarten in an English-medium school in the United States. It investigates, first, how each ...