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Literacy professor returns to teaching in the high school classroom to support and assess the reading comprehension of multilingual students

In 2018, Associate Professor Dianna Townsend set out to explore different approaches to reading comprehension of informational texts for adolescent, multilingual students who were designated as ...
MinnPost

Test results show Minnesota’s multilingual students need new approaches in the classroom

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Language Magazine

Holding the Pendulum Steady

A moderated dialogue on multilingual literacy, language development, and the science of reading Abstract As states and ...
Inside Higher Ed

5 Strategies for Better Supporting Multilingual Learners

Students who are multilingual learners of English (MLE) play an important role in U.S. society but are often marginalized, misunderstood and underserved in the postsecondary system. Using data from ...
WHYY

Delaware’s fastest-growing student group is being left behind as multilingual learners face deep gap in funding, resources

What are journalists missing from the state of Delaware? What would you most like WHYY News to cover? Let us know. The student landscape for Delaware is changing — growing more diverse with every ...
The Daily Star

Are Bangladesh’s multilingual youth being heard?

There is clear evidence that learning in multiple languages, starting with the mother tongue and then gradually adding national and global languages, is good for cognitive abilities and does not ...