Not speaking English is a figurative wall that obstructs millions of immigrants in California from taking full advantage of the opportunities in their new home. Although there are plenty of places ...

Controversies over how best to teach children to read go back many years. Most recently, two questions have emerged that leave teachers of English learners puzzled: First, does research on reading, ...

A Mark Seidenberg, professor in the department of psychology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and author of “Language at the Speed of Sight: How We Read, Why So Many Can’t, and What Can Be Done ...

There are students the world over who, when they want to learn how to read in English, turn to a Napa-based publication, Easy English Times. For two decades, Easy English Times has been used as an ...

If well used, primary-language instruction is a tool that can help us provide greater success for English-learners in English. If the Bush administration is serious about “leaving no child behind” in ...

English learners need foundational skills like phonics and vocabulary in addition to instruction in speaking and understanding English and connections to their home languages. Those are two agreements ...

Learning to read in English is not just about using context (e.g., pictures) to guess the meaning of the words on the page but also about being aware of the sounds in words and their use. This ability ...

MORE than 5000 years after the invention of writing, you would think we would have completely nailed the best way to teach people to read – literacy is a key skill in most societies, after all. But ...