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Continue reading →: Learning English isn’t EnoughBy Dr. Timothy Boals , WIDA Executive Director, Wisconsin Center for Education Research (WCER), University of Wisconsin-Madison Originally published for WCER on December 2, 2013. The original post is here. For years we’ve heard the debate about whether teachers should use bilingual or English-only instruction when teaching English Language Learners (ELLs).…
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Continue reading →: Infusing Meaning and Rigor Into Language Instruction
By: Dr. Anne Dahlman In this blog entry, I will attempt to explore strategies that will enable us to provide high levels of cognitive content to our language learners who might be lower in language ability. This is especially important for older learners who might be just learning the language…
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Continue reading →: We Must Define OurselvesPoem by Ruslana Westerlund Originally posted around 2008… I definitely remember it was a Saturday, but I forgot the year…. Today, I was inspired. I was inspired by the dedicated ESL Teachers who chose to spend their Saturday together with other ESL teachers. ESL Teachers are a very closely-knit group…
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Continue reading →: Out of the Peaceable Kingdom: The Three Roles of the ESL TeacherBy John Wolfe and Rita Platt Not too many years ago, the ESL classroom was a space apart. It often served as a warm refuge from what were often unreasonable demands of the rest of the school day. It was its own corner of the school characterized by diversity, acceptance,…
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Continue reading →: Reclaiming My Students’ Home Languages Between The Slices of The Dubai SkyThis is a true story from my teaching experience in 2007-08 school year. Not a very long time ago, I was an ESL teacher. I wanted to teach my students how to create a dialog by using call outs/cut outs or so called dialog bubbles. I gave them different magazines…
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