Language skills like reading, writing, listening, and speaking are essential for effective communication in English and are ...

Last year, I joined an after-school mentoring group at Sammamish High School where bilingual tutors assisted students classified as “MLL,” or multilingual learners. As someone who speaks English and ...

Being able to read a new language is hard, but having the courage to speak it can be even harder. At UD's English Language Institute (ELI), students can take a theater class that strengthens their ...

English learners' scores in a test designed to assess their handling of the language saw a sharp drop six years ago and have remained low. The drop coincided with the state's redesign of the test, ...

Emilio Saenz spent his winter break creating a website that would help his friend who struggled to adapt to an English-only school after moving from Mexico. “She was at a school where she was forced ...

The number of Michigan K-12 students who need help learning English in school is on the rise, but data tracking growth in those language skills varies widely around the state. The Michigan Department ...

While most English learners are U.S.-born citizens, they often come from immigrant households, and some are immigrants ...

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 ...

Syracuse, N.Y. — Nearly 3,000 students in the Syracuse City School District were considered English language learners last year, the highest total in a six-county region of Central New York, according ...

English-learning students’ scores on a state test designed to measure their mastery of the language fell sharply and have stayed low since 2018 — a drop that bilingual educators say might have less to ...