Schools often group English learners together, but studies show negative outcomes or no benefit for most students

For years, K-12 schools have grouped English learners in classrooms, driven by factors including limited resources and the ...
The Daily Universe

The BYU English Learning Center opens a whole new world for international students

8,351 miles away from his home, family and culture, Jethro Mukuna embarked on a journey at the English Learning Center (ELC) ...

English text readability can be estimated using basic linguistic features, study indicates

Text readability encompasses two aspects, namely, ease of comprehension and ease of processing (in relation to the effort ...
Education Week

How One District Approaches the ‘Science of Reading’ With English Learners

First grader Aizlynn Castillo works on an assignment in Diana Oviedo-Holguin’s English-learner class at Heritage Elementary ...
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Emilia Sun: Learning English in Lynn

You might expect that staff at a newspaper are pros when it comes to the English language.  I mean, we literally get paid to ...
EdSource

Why phonics instruction is not enough for English learners

EdSource · Hot classrooms, leaky roofs — one student’s fight for better school facilities As California launches a new literacy campaign, some advocates worry that for English learners, a focus on ...
Los Angeles Times

Op-Ed: Study English Lit to acquire ‘marketable’ skills? That’s a bad argument

There’s a tendency among English professors to pitch and plead for our subject as, counterintuitively, a practical choice for the student of today facing the job market of tomorrow. We aren’t wrong ...