[lg policy] Report: To Help Young ELLs Thrive, Cultivate Home Languages and Cultures

Fri Mar 23 14:37:45 UTC 2018

 Report: To Help Young ELLs Thrive, Cultivate Home Languages and Cultures
By Corey Mitchell on March 22, 2018 12:15 PM

With the nation's school-age population becoming more linguistically and
culturally diverse, early-childhood educators should do more to embrace the
differences that the nation's youngest English-learners bring to the
classroom, a new report from the Migration Policy Institute concludes.

Drawing on interviews with classroom teachers and program directors, family
surveys and focus group discussions, and classroom observations, the
researchers explored what teaching methods have worked for young
English-learners in six classrooms that represented three program types:
Head Start, public pre-kindergarten, and private schools.

The report identified practices, such as incorporating students home
languages in classroom rituals and routines, that help children in
"superdiverse" settings feel more welcome
<http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/learning-the-language/2018/02/schools_unprepared_to_handle_diverse_english_learners.html>.
The researchers also outlined principles, including the belief that
bilingualism is an asset and encouraging families to share their languages
with the school community, that drove the work of the programs.[image:
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The report offers suggestions—ranging from classroom practices to national
policy recommendations—for how to improve all early-childhood programs that
support dual-language learners. The recommendations include:

   - Cultivate strategies to help teachers support English and
   home-language development.
   - Collect detailed information regarding families' linguistic and
   cultural backgrounds.
   - Create national and state policies that explicitly support the
   inclusion of home languages.

The Migration Policy Institute report is the latest strand of research the
organization has released that explores how to improve early education for
dual-language learners, children who are 8 or younger with at least one
parent who speaks a language other than English.

The institute has become more attuned to the needs of this population as it
becomes more diverse: the nation's dual-language-learner population has
grown by about 24 percent since 2000, and those students represent a wider
range of languages and cultures than in the past.

They argue that little is known about what works well in classrooms where
children speak a variety of languages
<http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/learning-the-language/2018/02/schools_unprepared_to_handle_diverse_english_learners.html>
.

Here's a copy of the report:

   SuperdiversityClassroomLanguages Final
<https://www.scribd.com/document/374531580/SuperdiversityClassroomLanguages-Final#from_embed>
by corey_c_mitchell
<https://www.scribd.com/user/118260415/corey-c-mitchell#from_embed> on
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