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This is one of the books in Prufrock Press' popular Practical Strategies Series in Gifted Education. This series offers a unique collection of tightly focused books that provide a concise, practical introduction to important topics concerning the education of gifted children. The guides offer a perfect beginner's introduction to key information about gifted and talented education.
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Mike Matthews is an author, podcast host, trainer, and the founder and CEO of Legion, the #1 bestselling brand of all-natural sports supplements in the world, which he started in 2014. He lives in Ocala, Florida, with his wife, their two children, and two Dachshunds named Penny and Olive.
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Working with Gifted English Language Learners - Michael Matthews
THE PRACTICAL STRATEGIES SERIES
IN GIFTED EDUCATION
series editors
FRANCES A. KARNES & KRISTEN R. STEPHENS
Working With Gifted English
Language Learners
Michael S. Matthews
PRUFROCK PRESS, INC.
Copyright ©2006 by Prufrock Press, Inc.
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Printed in the United States of America.
ISBN-13: 978-1-59363-757-6
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Contents
Series Preface
Introduction
Who Are English Language Learners?
Language and Culture in the Classroom
Language Acquisition
Finding Gifted English Language Learners
Language in the Classroom
Final Thoughts
Resources for Further Study
Appendix A
Appendix B
Appendix C
References
About the Author
Series Preface
The Practical Strategies Series in Gifted Education offers teachers, counselors, administrators, parents, and other interested parties up-to-date instructional techniques and information on a variety of issues pertinent to the field of gifted education. Each guide addresses a focused topic and is written by scholars with authority on the issue. Several guides have been published. Among the titles are:
• Acceleration Strategies for Teaching Gifted Learners
• Curriculum Compacting: An Easy Start
to Differentiating for High-Potential Students
• Enrichment Opportunities for Gifted Learners
• Independent Study for Gifted Learners
• Motivating Gifted Students
• Questioning Strategies for Teaching the Gifted
• Social & Emotional Teaching Strategies
• Using Media & Technology With Gifted Learners
For a current listing of available guides within the series, please contact Prufrock Press at (800) 998-2208 or visit http:// www.prufrock.com.
Introduction
Rapidly changing demographics are not a new phenomenon in the history of the United States. Throughout our nation’s history, there have been cyclic increases and decreases in immigration rates (Noel, 2000). These cycles ebb and flow on a scale measured in decades, and to the casual observer watching, they may not appear cyclical at all. Because our lives are short compared to the scale of change, the rapid increases in immigration observed since the early 1990s seem like a new phenomenon to many people, whose ancestors themselves arrived in the U.S. only a few generations ago. Something is indeed different in recent years, but it is less obvious than the arrival of immigrants themselves; it is the goals of our educational system.
Prior to recent decades, and particularly before World War II, relatively few Americans attended college. After the war, the GI Bill provided financial assistance that allowed many more people to further their education. Since that time, changes in the types of jobs available and competition for well-paying positions have made pursuing a college degree more of a necessity for all than a luxury for the privileged few. Most parents today would like their children to attend college. For public schools, too, a major goal has become to prepare all students for college. This, then, is the fundamental difference between our educational efforts today and those of yesteryear. In earlier times, it was assumed that only a few select students would attend college. Today, our educational system strives to educate all students for postsecondary education, regardless of their origins, home language, or economic status.
Most recently, the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (NCLB) has given the goal of educating all students the force of law. Schools now face sanctions or other harsh consequences if any demographic group of students fails to make adequate yearly progress (AYP). Adequate yearly progress is defined based on scores on standardized tests. These scores must go up each year, toward the goal of all students scoring at predetermined high levels, for a school to meet its AYP goals. Students who are learning English as an additional language are one of the groups having the greatest difficulty under these new legislative requirements (Abedi, 2004; Sternberg, 2004; Wright, 2005).
Allowing capable students the opportunity to receive an appropriate education should require little thought or debate. Those students who are able to learn more rapidly and in greater depth and complexity than their peers must be given every opportunity to do so. Providing students with appropriate educational experiences should