What is ethical bilingual education?
Bilingual education is a hot topic these days, in both state and international education. On the whole, I support (obviously!) most...
From “good enough” to great: Best practice with higher level EAL learners
There is a consistent pattern in schools today of increasing numbers of students with an EAL designation and a concurrent decreasing in...
Home language curricula - where should it come from?
Thus we are faced with the bizarre scenario of school successfully transforming fluent speakers of foreign languages into monolingual...
What I learned this weekend from Cummins, Krashen, and Genesee
"Why are we using the terminology ESL and mother tongue, when for many students English is not actually their second language and they...
