Today’s post is the latest in a series sharing teachers’ favorite lessons for English- language-learner newcomers. Even though the school year is over, or near its end, for most of us, it’s never too ...

The northeastern Alabama county has some of the highest concentrations of ELL students in the state.

Frank Monaghan is affiliated with NALDIC (National Association for Language Develoment in the Curriculum), the UK's professional association for people working with EAL in schools. As a researcher ...

AOL Latino, America Online's bilingual Internet service for U.S. Hispanics, has teamed up with Berlitz International to offer English language lessons for free to its members. The entire language ...

IBERIA PARISH — Acadiana is a region rich in diverse languages and cultures, and many newcomers have made sacrifices to adapt, including learning English to better integrate into their communities.

Teaching English may well be the 21st century’s most promising way to take the Good News to the world “For it is by grace you have been saved,” I repeated after the missionary who was my ...

Seven years later, children who start learning English in the first grade achieve poorer results in this subject than children whose first English lesson isn’t until the third grade. The researchers ...

An earlier study had raised doubts about the effectiveness of learning English in the first grade. Now, researchers have observed that it improves language performance over an extended period of time.

I’ve published numerous posts over the years in which teachers of many content areas have shared their most effective lessons. In this series, it’s time for teachers of English/language-learner ...