Social Studies for English Language Learners: Teaching Social Studies that Matters
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2009
Abstract
In recent years the number of school-age English language learners (ELLs) in the United States has grown rapidly and by some counts the total is now approaching 15 million. Generally, ELLs are mainstreamed in classes with their Englishspeaking peers, social studies often being one of the first classes into which they are placed. Although fragments of help have begun to appear in recent years, such as a page or two in the class text's teacher's guide, most social studies teachers have been ill-prepared to teach students who are not proficient in English.
Citation / Publisher Attribution
Social Education, v. 73, issue 6, p. 271-274
Scholar Commons Citation
Cruz, Bárbara C. and Thornton, Stephen J., "Social Studies for English Language Learners: Teaching Social Studies that Matters" (2009). Teaching and Learning Faculty Publications. 314.
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/tal_facpub/314
