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According to a new report from the Migration Policy Institute (MPI), the support offered to young children who speak languages other than English at home varies widely from state to state, and community to community.

A new study published in the Journal of Teacher Education finds that student teachers with more multicultural awareness foster more positive classroom environments for their students, but that awareness varies considerably among future teachers based on prior experience working with youth of color.

While families play a vital role in the early literacy skills of young English Learners, their educators often do not share the same backgrounds or cultures, and may not know how to connect with parents who are linguistically and culturally different.

Drawing on ecological perspectives, this study examined the foundational assumption behind the negative stereotypes that surround children of mixed parentage in South Korea; namely, that their alleged deficiency in the Korean language will cause numerous issues for Korean society.

This study investigates the relationships between the observed quality of classroom teaching assessing Atmosphere, Instruction, Management and Student Engagement, (AIMS, Roehrig, A. D., and E. Christesen. 2010.

Using Jarvis's (2009) framework of adult learning, this study examines how inservice elementary school teachers make sense of instruction that is responsive to multilingual learners.

This article bridges research to practice by summarizing an interactive contentenriched shared book reading approach that Spanishspeaking parents of preschoolage children can easily use in the home to accelerate content vocabulary knowledge in Spanish.

Translanguaging is a theoretical lens that offers a different view of bilingualism and multilingualism.

This study explores the interplay between early reading, identity and bilingualism. Reading identities, or understandings about what reading is and whom one is as a reader, have been linked to reading achievement and the development of reading skills.

Bilingualism has been associated with a range of cognitive and language-related advantages, including the recognition that words can have different labels across languages.