English Language Learners Struggle to Improve School Attendance Pedro Henrique Santo woke up at 6:30 AM Monday morning, he knew it was another school day and he dreaded it. He has not always hated school, in fact, when he lived in Brazil, he enjoyed going to school, even if it was just to see his friends, but he was no longer in Brazil, he now lived in the United States and he hated school. He did not fit in, he did not understand the language, and he felt like an outsider. That is why he often
Using Strategies to Increase Oral Language Development for ELLs In recent decades, the United States has seen a dramatic increase in the diverse population, especially with English-language learners in the education system. English-language learners are students who are unable to communicate fluently or learn effectively in English. These students come from a non-English speaking home or background and require specialized instruction in the English language and their academic courses. Educators use
be in different stages of language development, and the educator must accommodate for each of these students. Magruder, Hayslip, Espinosa, and Matera (2013) state, “The US Census Bureau projects that by the 2030s, children whose home language is other than English will increase from roughly 22 percent to 40 percent of the school-age population” (p. 9). This increase in second language learners will cause the educator to accommodate for those needs. Second language learners “need teachers who welcome
Saussure, a French linguist from the early 20th century said, "In the lives of individuals and societies, language is a factor of greater importance than any other." Language provides insight to one 's culture, upbringing, likes, and dislikes. Being bilingual or multilingual in today 's world has many benefits. According to a 2013 article in Time "How the Brain Benefits From Being Bilingual" by Jeffrey Kluger, multilingual brains are "nimbler, quicker, better able to deal with ambiguities, resolve
Children laughed and pointed me out. I was not an English Language Learner but my dialect made me aware of just a little part of the world of English Language Learners in the classroom. English language learners and ELLSEs may be similar but they are also quite different. Both are considered to be emergent bilinguals. The students who are ELL’s will most likely have trouble with instruction in a new language, but if taught in their home language they will better be able to pass milestones. ELLSE
people are unaware of how many students are English language learners. According to authors Katharine Davies Samway and Denise McKeon, the largest growing group of students in our country is the language minority students (2007). There are many negative ideas that people have regarding those students. However, those students deserve a quality education as much as native English speaking students. The responsibility to provide this falls on the families, the government, and the teachers of those students
filed of English Language Learning. To gain more insight from a professional standpoint, I have had the honor to interview the coordinator of an afterschool program for immigrant children and families, where I have been doing my service learning for the past two years. The program coordinator’s beliefs are unanimous with the four literature review findings that using paired reading, gesture, and providing bilingual education are effective teaching strategies for English Language Learners. Furthermore
Some reports portray English language learners as a new and homogenous population. Actually ELLs are a highly heterogeneous and complex group of students, with diverse gifts, educational needs, backgrounds, languages, and goals. An English language learner is an individual that is of another culture and has migrated to America to live, learn, become educated and find a career. English language learners have been coming to America and continue to migrate here more and more. Most of them speak different
one fifth of the students in public schools were children of immigrants. This trend is expected to continue and even increase. In 2004, approximately 11% of the student population was identified as English language learners. This is a 60% increase from 1994 (Conger, 2008). Immigration has always been part of the United States, however, the new influx of immigrants brings with it new challenges. The latest wave of immigrants bring with them not only language differences, but they also bring with
to require that public schools ensure student to become proficient in English. It gives school district the option to teach either English only or bilingual in schools in California. ‘This could ensure that all students can achieve English Proficiency as soon as possible. (supportprop58.com). It is also a revision of to Prop. 227, and if passed it would remove restrictions, that “would allow schools to be able to use up to date methods to teach students the English language much faster. (supportprop58