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Teaching Practices for ESL Students
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Curtin, Ellen – Multicultural Education, 2005
Second-language acquisition theorists caution educators that higher second-language competency skills can take anywhere from five to eight years to attain realistically for any individual acquiring competency in a second language. There are many other variables like age of arrival in the United States and standard of education from home country…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Second Language Instruction, Immigrants, English (Second Language)
Instructional Styles Used by Regular Classroom Teachers while Teaching Recently Mainstreamed ESL Students: Six Urban Middle School Teachers in Texas Share Their Experiences and Perceptions
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Curtin, Ellen – Multicultural Education, 2005
This article presents the results of a qualitative research study conducted in one Texas urban middle school. One of the purposes of the study was to investigate the instructional methods used by regular classroom teachers to address the unique needs of ESL students recently main-streamed into these teachers' regular content classes. In this…
Descriptors: Middle School Teachers, Teaching Methods, Multicultural Education, English (Second Language)