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Download full textRegalado, Ester Calderon – Online Submission, 2007
With the implementation in 2003 of the federal education law known as No Child Left Behind, students from all cultural and linguistic backgrounds, including English language learners (ELLs), are required to perform well on state assessments. Since the numbers of ELLs in schools are growing and since schools are held accountable for all students'…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Federal Legislation, Academic Achievement, Second Language Learning
Anstrom, Kris; DiCerbo, Patricia, Ed. – 1998
This document examines the education of secondary level English language learners within mainstream language arts classes. It provides teachers and teacher educators with an understanding of how mainstream language arts instruction can be designed and implemented to enhance academic achievement for these students. Research for this report included…
Descriptors: Bilingual Students, Diversity (Student), English (Second Language), Evaluation Methods
Frutiger, Eliso – 1999
This paper describes how a large school district in suburban Atlanta, Georgia dealt with the challenges presented by the relatively sudden influx of a large number of highly heterogeneous limited-English-proficient (LEP) students. The eight most critical specific problems that underlay the assimilation of the new students included the following: a…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Class Size, Classroom Techniques, Cultural Awareness
Korkatsch-Groszko, Maria – 1998
Outlined are factors in effective instruction for linguistically diverse students in the public schools, particularly when those students are not enrolled in English-as-a-Second-Language or bilingual education programs but are integrated with English-proficient students in the regular classroom. The term "mainstreaming" is defined as it is applied…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Bilingual Education Programs, Class Activities, Classroom Techniques
Samway, Katherine Davies; McKeon, Denise – 1999
This book provides research information about programs and practices that have proven to be effective for helping language minority students achieve academically. Basic background information about language acquisition, legal requirements for educating linguistically diverse students, and placement, program, and assessment information is also…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Classroom Environment, Classroom Techniques, Demography
Direct linkAugust, Diane, Ed.; Shanahan, Timothy, Ed. – Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2006
Teaching language-minority students to read and write well in English is an urgent challenge in the nation's K-12 schools. Literacy in English is essential to achievement in every academic subject-and to educational and economic opportunities beyond schooling. Compounding this challenge are increasing numbers and diversity of language-minority…
Descriptors: English Language Learners, Language Minorities, Elementary Secondary Education, At Risk Students
