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Showing 1 to 20 of 184 for “"ELLs"”.
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Overrepresentation of ELLs in Special Education
English language learners (ELLs) face a challenge when placed in the correct environment. ELLs have been misplaced in classrooms in the United States. Research highlights the response-to-intervention (RTI) as a way to collect data to ensure students end up in the correct placement. However, …
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Creating Meaningful Literacy Instruction with ELLs
… instruction to develop literacy skills with ELLs? The three challenges teachers face when promoting literacy with ELL students are: how to effectively scaffold instruction without diluting content for their native English speaking peers, how to best prepare teachers already in the field to …
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Supporting ELLs Literacy Outcomes by Using Tools
… feel confused and overwhelmed when working with ELLs because they may not have the proper training or knowledge to support this population of students. This is a problem because most ELLs academic achievement scores in reading are lower than their non-ELL peers. ELLs face three overarching …
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Stories of Adult ELLs in a Public Setting
… students learn from the stories of individual ELLs? • What are some of the learning strategies adult English Language Learners use to achieve their learning goals? The introduction will define ELLs and the various subgroups which are a part of this category. This paper will also attempt to …
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How do the perceptions of early childhood teachers towards their early childhood English Language Learners (ELLS) govern their pedagogical practices with the early childhood ELLS in their classrooms?
… their early childhood English Language learners (ELLs) govern their pedagogical practices. The study was conducted in ten (N = 10) early childhood classrooms, ranging from grades pre-K to third grades, in one suburban school with a culturally and linguistically diverse student population. …
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Effective Instructional Practices and Models to Prepare ELLs for State Mandated Testing
… growing population of English language learners (ELLs) who travel from other countries for various reasons and become fluent in the English language. In the educational field today in the U.S. achievement is measured by standardized-test scores through state mandated testing (Ferlazzo, 2025). …
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Effects of Academic and Non-academic Instructional Approaches on Preschool ELLs' English Language Development
<p>The population of English Language Learners (ELLs) in the United States has been growing at an increasingly rapid rate (U. S. Census Bureau, 2010), and nowhere is this growth more evident than in U.S. public schools. As of school year 2010-11, nearly 25% of all students in the California public …
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Gomez and Gomez Dual Language Enrichment Model: Is It Keeping the Promise for ELLs?
… that enrollment of English Language Learners (ELLs) in U.S. schools will reach ten million and, by 2025, nearly one out of every four public school students will be an ELL (U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, 2009-10). The population of ELLs in the nation …
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IMMIGRANT OPTIMISM: INVESTIGATING COLLEGE ACHIEVEMENT IN ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNERS (ELLS) AT A FOUR YEAR UNIVERSITY
… and are labeled English language learners (ELLs) by th National Center for Education Statistics (2011). Despite this growing demographic shift, very little is known about their college going experiences and the factors that determine their success in college. On of the prominent issues faced …
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College-level ELLs in two English composition courses: the transition from ESL to the mainstream
"This study will analyze patterns' in ESL student academic behavior particularly related to classroom learning during their transition between English 101 and English 201. The student academic behaviors are particularly linguistic, based on the five langauge skills reading, writing, speaking, …
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An Investigation of Alternative Language Services (ALS) Received by English Language Learners (ELLs) Identified with a Disability
The identification of and provision of ALS to ELLs identified with a disability was compared to that of their ELL peers without an identified disability. In addition, I conducted a review of the types of ALS provided. I approached this study from the perspective of the social construction of …
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Promotion and Retention of English Learners (ELLs) in an Large Urban School District: A Policy Advocacy Document
… promotion policy for English language learners (ELLs) in elementary grades of a large urban school district. Increasing access and instructional opportunities within bilingual/ESL services combined with more accurate measures of English proficiency would help mitigate random or unfair promotion …
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Investigation on multiple factors affecting English-language learners' reading achievement: hierarchical linear modeling approach
… factors affecting English language learners’ (ELLs) low reading achievement in standardized tests by exploring the complex, hierarchical relation in student, classroom, and school levels. The data used for this study was from National Center for Educational Statistics (NCES), the reading …
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Determining the Differences between English Language Learners Who Exit Services and English Language Learners Who Become Long-Term ELLs: A Discriminant Analysis
… this study was to find study differences between ELLs who exit ELLs services and ELLs who do not exit based on regularly collected demographic and standardized achievement data. The variables included: ACCESS scores for reading, writing, speaking, and listening, state CRT scores for reading and …
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The Relationship Between English Language Learners' Phonemic Awareness and Decoding Skills
… 2001). This study was designed to discover if ELLs and non-ELLs show similar relationships between these two variables. There were 11 non-ELLs and 23 ELLs from a rural school in northern California in the sample used for this study. The correlations between phonemic awareness and decoding were …
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Culture Shock and its Effect on English Language Learners
When English language learners (ELLs) move from one country to another, their social, emotional, and psychological well-being is affected in school. Culture shock impedes ELLs’ academic abilities. This problem emerges from the growing number of ELLs in our country today. This number will continue …
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Learning From Teachers Serving Preschool English Language Learners: Perspectives on Integrating Home Language and Culture
The teachers' approaches to working with their ELLs were much the same as their approaches to working with other children in their classes. The teachers were not able to differentiate between good teaching and effective practices for ELLs. Home language and culture were also not recognized as an …
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