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Kim, Soo Hyon – Reading Teacher, 2015
English Language Learners (ELLs) often face challenges when participating in peer review activities in writers' workshops. This article identifies some of the potential difficulties that ELL writers may experience, and provides teachers with strategies to address these problems. The author describes a simple three-step peer review training model…
Descriptors: English Language Learners, Peer Evaluation, Writing Workshops, Writing Instruction
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Wong, Sissy S.; Ortega, Irasema – Science Teacher, 2015
Teachers often start their careers in schools with large populations of English language learners (ELLs), whose enrollment in U.S. public schools reached some 4.4 million in 2012 (Kena et al. 2014). To serve these ELLs, new science teachers must develop skills to not only teach the content and language of science but also academic English. Proper…
Descriptors: English Language Learners, Beginning Teachers, Science Teachers, Beginning Teacher Induction
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Adoniou, Misty; Qing, Yi – Australian Mathematics Teacher, 2014
There is a correlation between language proficiency and achievement in mathematics (Riordain & O'Donoghue, 2009), and this is particularly evident for children who speak English as an additional language or dialect. More effort needs to be made in mathematics classrooms to develop cognitive competencies, including the ability to decode and…
Descriptors: English Language Learners, Mathematics Achievement, Mathematics Instruction, Language Proficiency