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Because you were so helpful I wondered if you could help me collect some research or advocacy groups we could cite if we get in hot water for at least spending the 1st semester on basic language acquisition. So far I have found Cummins's research to be the most helpful, but the hardest thing is find...

You have no idea how much I fantasize about dropping school board and congress members into the middle of China or Russia or something like that, and then refusing to use any translation, not allowing them to speak English to one another, and then hand them "Hamlet" in a foreign language followed by...

I am in Texas, where we have huge groups of mostly Latino students. We have self-contained ESL classes for newcomers, generally for their 1st and 2nd year, removing the scaffolding as they move along. For 9 years, this has worked great. I use a giant amount of resources and have successfully taught ...