Research suggests teacher professional learning and collaboration are essential to support
student achievement. However, our Middle Eastern and North African (MENA) English …

Students use language to communicate with one another, share their ideas, and learn.
Academic language is a specialized language associated with disciplinary content. Having …

With increasing numbers of English Learners enrolling in public schools, teachers of core
academic subject area classes are facing the challenge of integrating English language …

Despite being among the fastest growing segments of the student population, English
Language Learners (ELLs) have yet to attain the same academic success as their English …

As part of a three‐year curricular and professional development intervention focused on
English language learners (ELLs), this study examined the intervention's effect on teachers' …

Abstract When English Language Learners (ELLs) are learning science, they are often
overwhelmed because they are experiencing cognitive overload given that they are learning …

This paper present findings from a pre-service teacher development project that prepared
novice teachers to promote English language and literacy development with inquiry-based …

Effective forums to prepare teachers to meet the instructional needs of English Language
Learners (ELLs) are necessary as these students will soon constitute a majority of America's …

Abstract Teachers at Elmhurst Community Prep have been using a traditional approach to
teach vocabulary to middle school students for the past 5 years. This strategy involves …

This chapter focuses on the preparation of pre-service teachers to teach science to English
Learners (ELs) and is based on the SSTELLA (Secondary Science Teaching with English …