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Addressing the Needs of English Language
Learners English language instruction continues to be a hot topic in the news -- from the push for a national language to the challenges faced by teachers working with inadequate funding in the classroom. These resources focus on supporting students' cultural language and identity as they work to learn a second language. For a rich description of a classroom and curriculum that supports English language learners, read the Language Arts article "'Seeing the Possibilities': Learning from, with, and about Multilingual Classroom Communities" (E), which examines the lives of four multilingual students, their classmates, and teacher as they use a range of systems to learn from, with, and about each other and their surrounding social worlds. The Voices from the Middle article "Preserving the Cultural Identity of the English Language Learner" (M) urges teachers to celebrate the multiple cultures and languages in their classrooms and offers advice, examples, and resources for maintaining students' cultural identity while they work to learn the English language. Looking for ways to address sentence construction with English language learners? The English Journal article "Phrase and Clause Grammar Tactics for the ESL/ELL Writing Classroom" (S) shows how sentence-combining activities can lead to comprehension of different types of phrases and clauses as well as improved student writing. "Toward a Writing Pedagogy of Shuttling between Languages: Learning from Multilingual Writers" (C) from the forthcoming July College English argues that instruction must see the first language and culture as a resource, not a problem and argues that teachers must seek practices that accomodate diverse literacy traditions -- rather than keep them divided and separate.
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