[Edling] ESOL Students and Foreign Language Learning

[Francis M. Hult via Edling]

Dear all,

I received an e-mail from one of my former students today who is now a P-12
ESOL specialist.  It fits in well with today's theme of English Language
Day and how English is part of multilingual repertoires.

She is involved with a discussion in her school district where an argument
is being made that students learning English as an additional language
should not also enroll in modern language courses.  While I can think of
much work published generally on additive language learning and
multilingual education, I am wondering if anyone is aware of any specific
scholarly work on English as a second language students in English dominant
contexts and the benefits of their taking modern language courses in
secondary and upper secondary school alongside English as additional
language courses that I could share with her.

Best,
Francis

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*Francis M. Hult, PhD, FRGS* | Professor
Department of Education
University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC)

Editor, Educational Linguistics Book Series
<https://www.springer.com/series/5894>
Co-Editor, Contributions to the Sociology of Language Book Series
<https://www.degruyter.com/view/serial/16644>

Web Profile <https://education.umbc.edu/faculty-list/francis-m-hult/> |
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<http://tesol.umbc.edu/>
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