• Students placed in enhanced practice and typical practice traditional bilingual education (TBE) and structured English immersion (SEI) programs consistently demonstrated significantly positive linear growth in their oral English de...

• While earlier research suggests that there is little connection between what teachers believe and what they practice in the classroom, this study demonstrates a clear link between belief and practice.
• The belief that -- if s...

• Attending schools where high percentages of student...

The impact of key instructional activities shown to be effective in improving reading comprehension for native and fluent English proficient students may be somewhat less effective for ELs, although the direction of influence is generall...

Low-immigrant-concentration ESL Schools:

1. Immigrant students placed in ESL performed at significantly lower levels than their mainstreamed peers.
2. The negative effect of ESL placement occurs primarily among first-genera...

Features of the Latino families' home language use and literacy explained their children's vocabulary outcomes.

1. Certain kinds of adult-child interactions can have a positive influence on the general cognitive skills un...

2. ELL students report a lower level of OTL as compared with non-ELLs an...

Guidelines Based on Relatively Strong Supporting Evidence from English Language Development (ELD) Research

• Providing ELD instruction is better than not providing it.
  
  
• ELD instruction sho...

Factors to Consider in Selecting a Model for ELL

• The total number of language minority students in the school or school district, as well as whether these students are concentrated in one grade, one building o...

Costing out studies largely underserve ELL students.  Studies either fail to mention ELL students altogether or aggregate them with low-income or special education students to generate an overall per pupil funding weight. Althoug...