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Should Your Child Be Learning a Second Language?
How many languages do you speak? If you grew up in the United States in an English-speaking household, the odds are you ...
Source: Education.com
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Parlez-Vous Français? The Case for the Bilingual Child
Whether or not you've actually seen Dora the Explorer, you're probably aware that many parents are jumping on the ...
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Give the Gift of Languages
The truth is, young children learn languages easily and retain them longer if they are exposed to them early in life. ...
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Language Experience Approach
While most references to the language experience approach (LEA) (Allen, 1976; Coate & Castle, 1989; Hall, 1978) ...
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Learning a Second Language: Weighing Pros and Cons
Has learning a second language become obsolete? With public foreign language programs shutting down due to budget cuts, ...
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Types of Collaborative Groups
Collaborative group work provides opportunities for both social and academic language development, with proficient ...
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How Children Learn a Second Language
In the 1970s, my early childhood provider advised my immigrant Mexican American mother to stop speaking Spanish with me ...
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Test Accommodations for LEP Students
It is widely believed that school achievement will improve if education systems identify what is to be learned, then ...
Source: Educational Resource Information Center (U.S. Department of Education)
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Supporting Academic Achievement in English Language Learners
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, as of July 1, 2006 there are 4.6 million English language learners (ELLs) in U.S. ...
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National English Language Development Standards
In 1997, in response to the recent standards-based education reform movement, Teachers of English to Speakers of Other ...
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NCLB A Boon For English Language Learners
No Child Left Behind (NCLB) – some love it for its insistence on accountability, and focus on the basics; others feel ...
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Vocabulary in Second-Language Classrooms
Understanding the words of a second language is only part of understanding the second language, but it is a crucial...
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Lyrical Literacy Learning
Literacy learning begins long before a child starts to read and it often begins with music. Early childhood educators...
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