What terms do you use to describe the population of multilingual learners and language development instruction?
* Multilingual learner/English language learner/English learner : To describe the student learning academic English who brings additional language and cultural assets from home, EL Education opts for the increasingly prevalent term “multilingual learner,” which is an asset-based reference to the diverse linguistic…
Why do EL Education curricula focus ELD instruction on the intermediate levels of proficiency?
Why are the supports targeted more at intermediate proficiency instead of newcomers? * Multilingual learners vary widely in their English proficiency with the majority falling somewhere in the middle of the spectrum. * Students who are newcomers or beginners usually quickly move, often within months, to interm…
How do the various state ELD proficiency levels align to the EL Education Language Arts Curricula?
* ELD instruction for all proficiency levels in the EL Education Curriculum is aligned to the California English Language Developments Standards Framework, which is tightly connected to the remaining five state ELD standards frameworks. * Language proficiency levels across all state frameworks are commonly concep…
Can you tell me more about how to group multilingual learners for instruction?
The dynamic nature of language learning, student background, and your classroom requires us to be strategic when grouping students. Following a prescriptive curriculum grouping will result in missed opportunities. At the same time, EL Education offers best-practice suggestions on how to group students. One best pr…
