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This study examined whether social media can promote adolescent English learners' academic and social progress. Recently arrived adolescents mainly from East Africa participated in a four-day social media unit in a high school English as a Second Language class.

The authors developed a tool for teachers to evaluate the quality of vocabulary apps they might use to support English language learners (ELs). The evaluation tool examines the instructional practices and activities, and the technological features of an app.

Learning the correct pronunciation of English words is a necessary but often boring task for English learners (ELs). Can technology be used to motivate ELs to practice pronouncing words correctly?

Schools in the United States are becoming more ethnically, racially, linguistically and economically diverse. It is projected that by 2050 the Hispanic population that speaks English as a second language in the United States will increase from 49.7 million to 132.8 million.

Educators need ways to assess orthographic knowledge and differentiate word study instruction for secondary, emergent bilingual learners.

Abstract: In and outofschool time (OST) experiences are viewed as complementary in contributing to students' interest, engagement, and performance in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM).

Providing learners of a foreign language with meaningful opportunities for interactions, specifically with native speakers, is especially challenging for instructors. One way to overcome this obstacle is through video-synchronous computer-mediated communication tools such as Skype software.

Demonstrating comprehension of text is a complex skill that is an area of difficulty for many students with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Shared story reading is an intervention that has a history of effectiveness in teaching literacy skills to students with extensive support needs.

This paper proposes a sentence stress feedback system in which sentence stress prediction, detection, and feedback provision models are combined.