Reading is one of the biggest hurdles for Multilingual Learners, especially when they see it as a chore rather than a meaningful activity. Reading is often a drudgery in their eyes, and we don't help our case when we implement boring, unintentional reading programs that don't simply demonstrate growth. Reading is fundamentally imortant to building an interlanguage, and if we ignore that, we do so at the expense of all four domains of language growth. In a podcast back in Marc

When annual testing takes center stage, managing the remaining class effectively is key to maintaining engagement and progress. Here are five practical, enriching activities that your students can do while others are testing: 1. Dive into an Interactive Worksheet to get Them Talking! Engage your newcomers with a worksheet that prescribes interaction with each other. While there are many different ways of doing this, in this example worksheet, questions are prescribed to ask e

One of the most powerful tools for language acquisition is reading. Research, particularly from linguist and education theorist Stephen...