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... skills in their own languages. Then our task will be twofold: to givethem confidence in English and to equip them with hitherto unknownskills in either their own mother tongue or English. At ... a foreign language because they are attracted to the culture of one ofthe TLCs (see (c) above). They learn thelanguage becausethey want to know more about the people who speak it, the places ... the students can achieve all the tasks with no difficulty at all they maylose the motivation that they have when faced withthe right level of challenge.Much ofthe teacher's work in the...
... VukovicUniversity of British Columbia The purpose of this article is to review published studies oftheEnglish literacy of children inCanada who are Englishlanguage learners (ELLs) withthe goal of understanding ... received all their primary academic schooling in English. The results might reflect thelanguage background of the families. Most ofthe parents ofthe participants wereadults when they immigrated ... that of native English- speaking (L1) students with and without RD. Ourreview found that ELLs with RD experienced reading difficulties similar to those of L1 students with RD. On the basis of the...
... withthe appropriate-ness ofthe accommodations for the constructs being tested and the objec-tives for the assessment program. In a recent case in Indiana (Rene v. Reed), the decision ofthe ... make the classification while others use the numbers of years of exposure to in-struction in an English- speaking environment or other factors. Durán be-lieves that determination of English- language ... measured proficiency in English. He has found that it is not often donethis way, in part because there are few tests ofEnglish proficiency andconsiderable disagreement about the quality of existing...
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