The melting pot metaphor is stronger than ever in American schools today. With 40 million foreign-born residents currently in the U.S., 17 percent of whom have entered the country between 2005 and ...
It started with a simple after-school conversation last spring between two teachers. Barbara Page, a veteran English-as-a-second-language teacher, and Meredith Vanden Berg, an 8th grade science ...
Recent research into the processes of children's first and second language development has yielded a number of insights which have been combined to create the communicative language teaching model.
A significant demand for well-trained English as a second language (ESL) teachers exists throughout the United States. In areas such as education, business, hospitality and many more, the ...
While Katie Gill uses puppets and costumes to teach English to her students at Midway Manor Elementary School in Allentown, her counterparts in rural Puerto Rican schools have enough books for only ...