Learning a new language is challenging, requiring a student to master four basic skills–listening, reading, speaking, and writing–from scratch. And it becomes even more challenging for ESL learners.

An ESL teacher for six years at Global Connections High School, Jill Weseman works with students illiterate even in their native language. Yet a year after those students arrive here and enroll in ...

When Kim Emch launched a free summer lunch camp for kids in Hilliard in 2007, she noticed more than half of the children were translating for their parents. What started out as a way for Emch to ...

On a dark and wet Tuesday night in November, about a dozen people filed into a basement classroom in Hawkins Hall on the SUNY Plattsburgh campus. Helen Mitchell passed out worksheets and dove into ...

Offering programming around Hispanic Heritage Month is just one way to acknowledge Latinx employees. But to support Hispanic folks long term, employers may need to consider frameworks that will help ...

When Julie Tolzman started the hunt for a new job a year ago, her main concern wasn't that she wasn’t qualified for a new position — but that she would lose the ability to communicate with coworkers ...

Federal accountability measures under the Every Student Succeeds Act include the outcomes of English learners in evaluating schools for improvement. That’s both in terms of the students’ ...

There are many resources available at the University of Colorado for non-native English speakers. Options include classes for credit, non-credit classes, workshops, on-line resources, in person ...

In the intermediate English as a Second Language class for rising fourth-graders at Cos Cob School this summer, Alvaro Vivas, Kaho Takamura and Emanuel Jaramillo and their classmates showed an ...

This story begins in December 2019, when Arzu Ozcan first moved to the United States from Turkey. "As far as I can remember," Arzu said, "two weeks later, I came to Schaumburg Library." Now a ...