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Creese, Angela – Theory Into Practice, 2010
This article looks at the possibilities of content-based instruction in mainstream English secondary schools. It considers the continuum from a language to content focus in classrooms where teachers collaborate. English as an additional language (EAL) and subject curriculum teachers work together to support young people while they simultaneously…
Descriptors: National Curriculum, Metalinguistics, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language)
Brooks, Katie; Adams, Susan R.; Morita-Mullaney, Trish – Theory Into Practice, 2010
School-level administrators are often concerned about tertiary supports for English language learners (ELLs), such as translating signs and school documents or offering Spanish classes for their teachers. Although modeling and learning the heritage language(s) of the ESL population can be helpful, its focus on language differences can limit our…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Principals
Newman, Karen L.; Samimy, Keiko; Romstedt, Kathleen – Theory Into Practice, 2010
This article addresses a program model developed to address the professional development needs of content teachers who work with English language learners (ELLs) and offers recommendations for teachers, administrators, school districts, state agencies, and institutions of higher education, to address job-embedded professional development needs.…
Descriptors: Needs Assessment, Colleges, Second Language Learning, Professional Development
Panferov, Suzanne – Theory Into Practice, 2010
Engaging parents as advocates for school success in the home is particularly important for English Language Learners (ELL). Tapping into the experiences of ELL parents in their own lives about schooling and literacy is a resource educators can use to increase parental involvement. This article describes the stories of two parents and compares…
Descriptors: Parent Participation, Second Language Learning, Parent School Relationship, Family Environment
Garcia, Shernaz B.; Tyler, Brenda-Jean – Theory Into Practice, 2010
To be academically successful in general education classrooms, English language learners (ELLs) with learning disabilities (LD) need instruction that is simultaneously responsive to their disability, English language status, and culture. Because the majority of students with LD have reading disabilities, ESL and classroom teachers must be familiar…
Descriptors: Educational Strategies, Instructional Development, Reading Difficulties, General Education
Menken, Kate – Theory Into Practice, 2010
This article highlights key issues surrounding the assessment and accountability mandates of No Child Left Behind (NCLB) for English language learners (ELLs). The policy requires high-stakes testing of ELLs in English--a language that these students, by definition, have not yet mastered. After offering background on current federal education…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Academic Achievement, Accountability, English (Second Language)
Iddings, Ana Christina DaSilva – Theory Into Practice, 2009
This article reports on a family literacy program that began with the creation and implementation of a Welcome Center in an elementary school in the Southwest United States. This center was intended to be a place where recent immigrant students and their families, teachers, as well as other community members, came together to participate in…
Descriptors: Family Literacy, Immigrants, Family School Relationship, Empowerment
Creese, Angela – Theory Into Practice, 2009
This article describes the educational and linguistic contributions of complementary schools (also known as supplementary and heritage language education) to their communities and the wider society. It shows the importance of these schools in providing a bilingual space where teachers and young people are able to use their linguistic resources to…
Descriptors: Heritage Education, Second Language Learning, Bilingualism, Native Language Instruction
Sox, Amanda K. – Theory Into Practice, 2009
Recent immigration to the southern United States has created challenges for educators. This article synthesizes current works about the education of immigrants and English language learners (ELLs) in the South, and teacher preparation for working with ELLs. Reviewed studies revealed that immigrant and ELL students often are unwelcome and unwanted…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Immigration, Immigrants, English (Second Language)
Gibson, Margaret A.; Carrasco, Silvia – Theory Into Practice, 2009
The United States and Spain have had radically different immigration histories, and they also have very different education systems and policies, yet there are similarities. Despite official efforts to welcome immigrant youth, both education systems operate, paradoxically, in ways that are unwelcoming, relegating immigrant youth to the margins of…
Descriptors: Ethnography, Educational Practices, Foreign Countries, Immigrants
Kaplan, Suzanne; Leckie, Alisa – Theory Into Practice, 2009
Language minority students represent an increasing percentage of the school-age student population in the United States. Because the number of English language learners (ELLs) is on the rise nationwide, some states have enacted English-only legislation that impacts the educational experiences of ELLs and the teachers who work with them. Many…
Descriptors: Language Minorities, Second Language Learning, Professional Development, Workshops
Sarroub, Loukia K. – Theory Into Practice, 2008
This article examines the concept of glocality as a way to better understand why immigrants, poor people, print-illiterate families, and boys are short-changed by schools that often operate under a deficit model or deprivation model in which students' economic, language, and gender status is the main determinant for school success. The author…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Immigrants, Poverty, Illiteracy
Haneda, Mari – Theory Into Practice, 2006
In order to help school-age English language learners (ELLs) develop the literacy competencies required for success at school, it is important to recognize and draw on the repertoires of literacy practices that students develop outside school. The concept of multiple literacies provides an analytic heuristic with which to consider the range of…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Family Environment, Community Influence
Goker, Suleyman Davut – Theory Into Practice, 2006
Around the world there are many schools where native speakers of other languages study English as a foreign language (EFL). In this article, I introduce a school-based reflective management model (SBRM) for such EFL schools. The model centers on creating a learning community where all changes involve reflective learning and growth for students,…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Reflective Teaching
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Savignon, Sandra J. – Theory into Practice, 1987
This article summarizes and provides perspective on recent developments in foreign-language learning. It sketches the theoretical and research bases for communicative language teaching and outlines a five-component approach to shaping a curriculum. (MT)
Descriptors: Communicative Competence (Languages), Curriculum, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning