AB 2555, authored by Assemblymember Darshana Patel, passed the state Assembly in May with virtually no opposition.
A study of seven high-poverty districts in the Seattle metropolitan area found that it took nearly four years for elementary school-aged English-language learners to develop English proficiency.
Virtual learning, as a result of the coronavirus pandemic, continued to impact English learners’ English-language development in the 2021-22 school year, according to new national assessment data.
The IEC can administer the English Language Screening Test to international students enrolled at the University of Colorado Boulder. The purpose of the test is to assess students’ academic English ...
The question of why native and foreign languages are learned with a large performance gap has prompted language researchers to hypothesize that they are subserved by fundamentally different mechanisms ...
Learners’ metacognitive reading strategies support their attempts to draw meaning from texts and to overcome comprehension difficulties. For second language readers, such strategies may compensate for ...
Universities have increasingly diverse student bodies, bringing together varying forms of social and cultural knowledge. But universities generally don’t recognise diverse forms of knowledge. This is ...
China’s steady decline in global rankings of English proficiency continues to stoke debate about students’ prospects and potential risks to the country’s international competitiveness. Education ...