Monthly Articles on ELLs
September 2012 Academic English to Ensure ELLs Success
October 2012 Connecting Research About English Language Learners to Practice
November 2012 Becoming a Cultural Insider: How Holidays Can Help ESL Students' Acculturation and Language Learning (word version) (web version)
December 2012 WIDA Focus on Differentiation
January 2013 Current Developments in Second Language Reading Research Though not very current (1991), this article from TESOL provides some insight for reading instruction and its implications for the ESL classroom. It emphasizes more research on the folloinwg areas: schema theory, language skills and automaticity, vocabulary development, comprehension strategy training, and reading-writing relations.
February 2013 Practical Ways Brain-based Research Applies to ESL Learners I referenced this article in my action research paper in graduate school. I thought it was simple and well organized.
March 2013 Promoting Learners' Speaking Ability by Socioaffective Strategies Though the article focuses on Asian learners, it makes a strong point and call for more socioaffective learning strategies in the classroom. This means teachers examining how thoughts and feelings enter into pragmatics and thinking about how effective it can be in language acquisition.
October 2012 Connecting Research About English Language Learners to Practice
November 2012 Becoming a Cultural Insider: How Holidays Can Help ESL Students' Acculturation and Language Learning (word version) (web version)
December 2012 WIDA Focus on Differentiation
January 2013 Current Developments in Second Language Reading Research Though not very current (1991), this article from TESOL provides some insight for reading instruction and its implications for the ESL classroom. It emphasizes more research on the folloinwg areas: schema theory, language skills and automaticity, vocabulary development, comprehension strategy training, and reading-writing relations.
February 2013 Practical Ways Brain-based Research Applies to ESL Learners I referenced this article in my action research paper in graduate school. I thought it was simple and well organized.
March 2013 Promoting Learners' Speaking Ability by Socioaffective Strategies Though the article focuses on Asian learners, it makes a strong point and call for more socioaffective learning strategies in the classroom. This means teachers examining how thoughts and feelings enter into pragmatics and thinking about how effective it can be in language acquisition.
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