Heather Bradley is an ESOL (English for Speakers of Other Languages) teacher in Silver Spring, Maryland, where she teaches adult ESOL students. When the English proficiency assessment her program uses ...

My parents first came to the United States in the 1970s to flee the cruelty and violence of Haiti’s dictator, François Duvalier, or “Papa Doc” as he was called. With their temporary visas expired, ...

“I don’t think he understands anything I say in class,” Ms. Pierce, a high school science teacher, admitted to me recently. She was talking about her new Ukrainian student, who had just arrived and ...

This article is part of the collection: How AI Is Writing the Next Chapter in ELA Instruction. The integration of AI tools in English language arts (ELA) instruction has emerged as a potentially ...

Two first grade students in a New York City elementary school use an AI-enabled device that allows them to overcome language barriers. A first grade child, whose parents moved from El Salvador to New ...

When it comes to tackling language barriers in the classroom, the old “push in/pull out” model — adding teachers to classrooms to help students who are still learning English, or pulling students out ...

Music is often considered a universal language, as it crosses language barriers and connects people all over the world with ease. In fact, songs are popularly used in foreign language classrooms as a ...