English Language Learning

Provides emerging research exploring the theoretical and practical aspects of virtual technologies and applications in engaging language learners both within and outside the classroom.

Introduces the principles of Cultural Proficiency and how they can help improve educators' ability to effectively teach English language learners.

Provides a research-based approach for developing EFL/ESL writers in disciplinary/professional context.

Authors use brain-based strategies and texts that appeal to older learners who may have had interrupted formal education or come from newly arrived immigrant populations.

Provides a wealth of grade-specific literacy strategies that not only increase student achievement but also increase it rapidly.

Describes how to implement this easily accessible form of professional development, outlines specific strategies for adapting instruction to engage ELLs, and provides academic language development videos.

Explores a wide variety of issues related to second language pedagogy and SLTE, including the importance of SLA research; competency-based teacher education approach; classroom-based action research, and more.

Presents current research in the study of ESL, including brain plasticity and phonetic training in ESL; using authentic newspaper texts in teaching intermediate vocabulary in ESL learners; EFL/ESL teaching in China; and improving reading skills for ESL learners using SoundSpel.

Brings together all of the research about the brain to show the process of learning multiple languages and offers ways to implement effective teaching strategies with quality instruction.

Practical book shows how to shape a school culture conducive to high academic achievement for all students.

ELL expert Ivannia Soto builds on the groundbreaking research she presented in her previous book ELL Shadowing as a Catalyst for Change to show how oral language development scaffolds writing skills.

The contributions to this volume explore several focal issues related to the global spread of English and their implications for English language teaching, providing both theoretical and empirical perspectives on recent research and implications in educational terms.

Offers strategies, tools, and tips that teachers can use to help ELLs at all levels flourish in mainstream classrooms.

Provides a practical guide to translating current research into effective practice, with how-to material and other instructional aids that will facilitate teaching and assessing EL students whose reading problems make it difficult to determine whether or not they have learning disabilities.