Sentences with phrase «language learners of all ages»

The Mutually Adaptive Learning Paradigm ®, or MALP, is a culturally responsive teaching model for struggling language learners of any age.

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Such changes, Li and colleagues suggested while reviewing a number of related studies, are consistent with anatomical changes that can occur in the brain as a result of learning a second language, no matter the age of the learner, as they reported in a recent issue of Cortex.

During analysis, it's critical to get a good understanding of the learner demographics — age, gender, computer proficiency, language skills, and education level.

The downloadable sample portfolio checklist that accompanies this article is one I used as a teacher of elementary - aged English language learners — and it can easily be adapted for use with older students.

Sarah Dryden - Peterson, an assistant professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, found that refugee children — many of them English - language learners — spend a «disproportionate amount of their time learning languages,» which can contribute to falling behind in age - appropriate academic content.»

This is especially true with adolescent English - language learners, who often can not attain academic proficiency in English by the age of a traditional high school graduate.

Precisely because of this quality of engaging with the learner, they touch the memory and ask a learner to make inferences about them or simply enjoy them aesthetically, but even in this case, there is always a truly interactive communication, which goes beyond race, age, social class and language.

The plan's five main objectives, to be delivered by 2021, are: to develop a new Welsh language; to increase opportunities for children and young people to use their Welsh in various contexts and embed their language use patterns from an early age; to support leaders and practitioners in Wales to continue to develop their Welsh language skills and have the knowledge and expertise to deliver the curriculum through the medium of Welsh and Welsh as a subject; to increase the number of learners in Welsh - medium settings; and to ensure that all learners can have equal access to Welsh - medium education and experience the best opportunities to develop their language skills.

Join Illuminate Education for an educational webinar where they will explore the crucial issue of reaching English - language learner students (ELLs), one of the fastest growing segments of school - age population.

Education, Economic Development Keys to Improving Cities Like Worcester Worcester Telegram and Gazette, April 30, 2012 «Paul Reville, state secretary of education, said children in these middle - sized must be immersed at an early age in «literacy rich» environments, and said particular attention should be paid to English language learners.

More than 11 million school - age children speak a language other than English at home, and Texas enrolls the second largest population of K - 12 English language learners.

Considerable attention has focused on the challenges of English language learners without age - appropriate formal education and first language literacy.

More than 20 percent of all preschool - aged children in the United States speak a language other than English at home, yet most state prekindergarten (preK) programs do not collect data on children's home language, making it nearly impossible to design effective supports for young English learners *, according to a new report from the National Institute for Early Education Research.

Title III provides states with formula grants to support education of dual language learners (DLL) starting at age three and to support development and implementation of effective preschool language instruction programs funded by local education agencies.

EC Section 51933 requires that comprehensive sexual health education shall be age appropriate; medically accurate and objective; available on an equal basis to English language learners; appropriate for use with pupils of all races, genders, sexual orientations, and ethnic and cultural backgrounds; and appropriate for and accessible to pupils with disabilities.

She currently works on projects that seek to build research capacity in the study of dual language learners ages birth — five, with recent efforts that include adapting Recognition & Response (a model of Response to Intervention for pre-kindergarteners) for use with Spanish - speaking preschoolers.