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English Language Learners and Direct Instruction

students with concepts and ideas that are presented in a disorganized fashion (Stein, Carmine and Dixon, 1998). When this occurs, ...

English Language Learners' Educational Timeline

schools to take "affirmative steps" to overcome language barriers that impeded non-English speaking children from academic success...

Beginning SEI Approaches

The teacher might use pictures or finger-puppets to help facilitate student comprehension. The disadvantage to this approach is th...

English-Language Learners

do with teacher preparation. Surveys during faculty meetings reveal that 70 percent of the teachers do not feel they are adequatel...

Educational Models for Learning a Second Language

In seven pages this paper discusses the education regarding second language instruction with models such as Teaching English to Sp...

Bilingual Education/Issue Pro & Con

associated with bilingual education, evaluating what works and what does not, is not an easy task (Gilroy 50). Both supporters an...

Developing a Workshop

computer applications to gather and organize information and to solve problems" (NJDOE, 2006). Students should master the basic co...

Language Arts Instruction of the Twenty First Century

the disagreement of those who argue that the more conventional direct flash instruction of phonics is most beneficial and those wh...

ESL is Better than Bilingual Education

(Bilingual/ESL, 2004). Carrasquillo and Rodriguez (1996) point out that mainstreaming LEP students is one of the most significan...

Comprehensible Input

want students to learn accurate language. Communication needs to be grammatically correct with proper syntax and so on (Kagan, 199...

English as a Second Language Preschoolers

learning to read English as well. Between reading books at home and book in the classroom, children picked up a significant amou...

Teaching Using the SEI Approach

ELLs receive a minimum of four hours of daily instruction in English language development, that is, not simply instruction in Engl...

Case Study of the ELL Program

Other 615 1.2% Total other language 4,258 8.4% (Source: San Juan Unified School District, District, 2004). All 4,258 students wh...

English Language Learners, Learning Disabilities and One School Setting

population of zip code $ 50,000 - $59,999 11.0% $ 60,000 - $74,999 12.3% $ 75,000 - $99,999 11.5% Source: (Income and Housing,...

A Move for the Simplification of Spelling In American and British Society

are spelled. There are far more sounds in the English language than the twenty-six letters which make up our alphabet. As a resu...

Global Commonality of the English Language

were able to teach through the medium of Welsh and Welsh cultural texts were promulgated....

ESL Instruction, Cross-Cultural Activities

This essay offers two lessons and activities that provide cultural instruction within the context of ESL (English as a Second Lang...

Academic Writing and ESL Students

This research paper pertains to the problems faced by English as a Second Language (ESL) learners when faced with the challenges o...

Three Perspectives on Problems with Teaching English

learn the ways in which standard English developed -- that no language remains "fixed" but is rather a constantly evolving, adapti...

Devising a Japan TESOL Researching Method

In twenty pages the instruction of English in Japan is researched by devising a study on Teaching of English to Speakers of Other ...

Impact of Having a Deaf Sibling

In fifteen pages the impact of having a deaf sibling on siblings who have developed normally is evaluated emotionally and psycholo...

ELL: Methods And Techniques

they need to succeed. III. METHODS AND TECHNIQUES Teaching ELL students is no different than educating the mainstream population...

McWhorter/Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue

Another feature that is unique to English is the way in which English uses the that "-ing thing" (McWhorter 2). In English, the pr...

English Language Learners (ELL): Families And School

country is not only complex and troublesome, but it is also quite an involved process. Even more exasperating is the quest to con...

Overview of Differentiated Instruction

form to catch up in math. Some students learn best when they are involved in activities, others when they read. Howard Gardner to...

Tan, Orwell and Baldwin: Language

truths with incredible power. For example, Hitler used language in an incredibly powerful way, playing on the truths of the people...

The Use of Differentiated Teaching/Learning Strategies in Pre-K Classrooms

improved outcomes for diverse learners. The focus on academic standards in early childhood education at a time when children shou...

SCHOLARLY ARTICLE REVIEW: ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE

instruction tended to help ELL students, and Brooks and Thurstons results werent much different. Basically, throwing ELL students ...

The Bilingual Education Debate

There is also evidence that bilingualism actually provides benefit to culturally diverse students. Sheng, McGregor and Marian cond...

Techniques for ELL Students

(Ghaith, 2003). Cooperative learning encourages meaningful, real-life conversations between students, regardless of age. Researc...