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Download full textUro, Gabriela; Barrio, Alejandra – Council of the Great City Schools, 2013
English Language Learners (ELLs) are among the fastest-growing demographic group in U.S. public schools. There are numerous recent reports documenting this phenomenon. Some reports estimate the numbers of ELLs enrolled in U.S. public schools, and other reports approximate the growth in ELL enrollment over the past five to ten years. Still, there…
Descriptors: National Competency Tests, Public Schools, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Direct linkAdler, Stacey L. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
This dissertation examined the impact that Proposition 227 had upon the identification and placement of English language learners in Special Education programs in small, necessary Special Education Local Plan Areas (SELPAs) in the state of California. Furthermore, this dissertation studied the practices and strategies used by small, necessary…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Administrator Attitudes, Identification, Statistical Data
Waggoner, Dorothy – 1979
Findings are presented from the Teachers Language Skills Survey, the first national survey undertaken to estimate how many teachers currently employed in public schools have the backgrounds, experience, education, and skills needed to teach students with limited-English proficiency. Information was gathered on teachers teaching in the 1976-77…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, English (Second Language), Language Instruction, Language Teachers
PDF pending restorationO Domhnallain, Tomas; O Gliasain, Micheal – 1975
In Ireland Irish is taught as a second language in all primary schools in English-speaking areas. A form of code cognition approach known as the A.B.C. method was in use in all schools for about forty years prior to the introduction of audiovisual methods between 1965-1970. This report gives the results of a survey carried out among teachers who…
Descriptors: Audiolingual Methods, Audiovisual Aids, Audiovisual Instruction, Bilingualism
Bigelow, Donald N.; Legters, Lyman H. – Office of Education, US Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, 1964
This bulletin reports on the contributions of the Federal Government to the improvement of language and area studies. This report indicates that two fundamental conclusions have become readily apparent: (1) non-Western studies have received material assistance under the National Defense Education Act of 1958 (NDEA) without which the present high…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Area Studies, Federal Aid, Federal Government
Salamanca, Anthony J. – 1974
This position paper gives the results of informal surveys carried out by the Bilingual-Bicultural Task Force of the California State Department of Education. Only 60 to 65% of the teachers in the state bilingual programs are judged bilingual and 50% bilingual-biliterate. Almost all of the teacher aides are judged bilingual, and a large percentage…
Descriptors: American Indians, Asian Americans, Biculturalism, Bilingual Education
