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Bilingual ELL Programs More EffectiveA review of three decades of research on ELL programs discovered that bilingual approaches are more effective, producing higher levels of achievement, than English-only approaches in teaching English Language Learners. The analysis of 17 studies was conducted by Robert Slavin of Johns Hopkins University in conjunction with Alan Cheung with the Success for All Foundation. This “paired bilingual strategy” involves teaching students to read in English and in their native language at the same time, just at different times of the day. These findings are significant because many ELL programs are currently designed to teach children to read in their native language before learning to read in English, with some eventually limiting instruction in native languages all together.
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