By the time immersion students leave McKinley Elementary School, they should be able to read and write in both languages.

Years ago, the Beaverton school district in Oregon participated in a study to determine the right models for improving English learners’ academic achievement. The results, which came out in 2019, ...

On a wet, overcast day in Campbell, about 20 children wearing bright blue and lime-green hats skipped, ran and climbed around a large jungle gym while calling to one another in two distinct languages.

As far back as George Bernard Shaw’s fictional professor Henry Higgins, language experts have argued that low-income students who learn to switch from speaking a dialect to using standard English have ...

Ada Rios Torres grew up speaking Spanish in Puerto Rico. When she was 25, she taught herself English by watching and listening to videos. It took her five years to master the language. She moved to ...

A picture of a domino with three dots was displayed on a screen in Jennifer Lopez Romero’s kindergarten classroom on a recent Wednesday at Ronnow Elementary School. “Uno, dos, tres,” her students ...

Seven years later, children who start learning English in the first grade achieve poorer results in this subject than children whose first English lesson isn’t until the third grade. The researchers ...

Si desea leer este reportaje en español visite El Planeta. Edith has waited about two years to get into an English language course. She can only make time for an evening class, which limits her ...