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Office of English Language Acquisition, US Department of Education, 2024
The Office of English Language Acquisition (OELA) has synthesized key data on English learners (ELs) into two-page sheets on a variety of subjects. This fact sheet focuses on: (1) Most Common Languages Spoken by English Learners (Excluding Spanish and English): Fall 2020; (2) Number of Reported Arabic-Speaking English Learners: 2008 through 2020;…
Descriptors: English Language Learners, Arabic, Native Language, Language Fluency
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Tanya L. Flores; Maison Evensen-Martinez – Journal of Latinos and Education, 2024
The current study examines the bilingual language development of twelve young children. We focus on the use of Spanish as a heritage language among the children while they learn English in an English-majority environment. Data was collected in English and Spanish four times over the first two years of formal schooling. The study focuses on oral…
Descriptors: Spanish Speaking, English Language Learners, Bilingualism, English (Second Language)
Ester Garcia – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Individuals with lower proficiency in a second language tend to produce more disfluent speech patterns in the second language. Speech disfluencies refer to interruptions in the forward flow of speech and are distinct from the colloquial use of "fluency," to characterize knowledge of a language. Prior research indicates that some speech…
Descriptors: Language Proficiency, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Spanish
Indiana Department of Education, 2024
Providing foundational academic support to Indiana's culturally and linguistically diverse students is a cornerstone of the state's educational goals. Over 140,000 Indiana students speak a language other than English at home, and there are over 295 different languages represented in Indiana schools. Of these, over 93,000 students have been…
Descriptors: English Language Learners, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Hsu, Funie – Educational Studies: Journal of the American Educational Studies Association, 2020
Though California's English Learner (EL) policies were developed in response to civil rights struggles for language access and equal educational opportunity, they are also conditioned by the history of U.S. settler and overseas conquest. This article presents a Critical Policy Analysis (CPA) of the California EL classification policies and…
Descriptors: English Language Learners, Classification, Educational Policy, Native Language
Houston Independent School District, 2020
The Texas Education Code (ยง 29.051) requires school districts to provide every language minority student with the opportunity to participate in either a bilingual or English as a second language (ESL) program. This is the evaluation report summarizing the performance of students who participated in the district's Dual Language Bilingual Program.…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education Programs, Language Minorities, Program Evaluation, Academic Achievement
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Kelly, Laura Beth – Language Policy, 2018
I analyze two bills from the state legislatures of California (SB 1174) and Arizona (SB 1242) that propose to expand bilingual education where English-only education was previously the default. Using a critical discourse analysis lens to conduct a directed content analysis, I ask who bilingual education is for, why it is offered, and how the…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Bilingual Education Programs, English Language Learners, Language Planning
Indiana Department of Education, 2019
More than 112,000 Indiana students speak a language other than English at home, and there are over 275 different languages represented in Indiana schools. Of these, over 50,000 students have been formally identified as English learners due to limited proficiency in speaking, listening, reading, and writing academic English. English learners make…
Descriptors: English Language Learners, English (Second Language), Language Fluency, Student Needs
Latham Keh, Melissa Anne – ProQuest LLC, 2014
It is well documented that ELLs face significant challenges as they develop literacy skills in their second language (NCES, 2007, 2011). This population is diverse and growing rapidly in Massachusetts and across the nation (Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education, 2013; NCELA, 2011; Orosco, De Schonewise, De Onis, Klingner,…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Miscue Analysis, Metalinguistics