About 30% of Bridgeport's students are considered multilingual learners — students whose primary language isn't English.

Students who are multilingual learners of English (MLE) play an important role in U.S. society but are often marginalized, misunderstood and underserved in the postsecondary system. Using data from ...

Peter Rosario has spent years watching his teachers help Spanish-speaking preschoolers sound out English words at La Casa de ...

Celia Bowman-Jeffries remembers the moment the light bulb went off for a little boy who knew no English when she first started working with him. She could see he was incredibly intelligent, but he was ...

A shadow teacher follows Ezekiel, an intermediate multilingual learner, through his school day. In science, the lesson is structured around talk. Ezekiel discusses ideas with a partner, uses key ...

Isabel Becerra is the sheltered-instruction facilitator for the multilingual programs department in the Garland ISD in Texas. She was born in Bolivia and has been an educator since 1992. She is a ...

When I started teaching in California’s public schools 30 years ago, it was the beginning of the so-called English-only movement. “Qualified teachers” for multilingual learners were chosen to teach if ...

Multilingual scholars can benefit from reflecting on their own experience, a Northeastern University researcher concludes. Qianqian Zhang-Wu, an assistant professor of English, says multilingual ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- Jefferson County Public Schools have seen a significant increase in the number of non-native English speakers over the last five years. As the district tries to educate these ...

Erin Papa is an assistant professor of World Languages Education at Rhode Island College. Rabia Hos is associate professor of TESOL/Bilingual-Dual Language Education at the University of Rhode Island.