A provision of the law is the requirement of a four-hour English Language Development (ELD) block for all students not reaching English proficiency as measured by the Arizona English Language Learner Assessment. A goal of the approved models was for students to reach proficiency in a period of...
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Arizona Elementary Teachers' Attitudes Toward English Language Learners and the Use of Spanish in Classroom Instruction This study focused on the attitudes that elementary teachers have toward their English language learner (ELL) students' native languages (e.g., Spanish) an... AG García-Nevarez,ME...
The guidelines require that ELLs who score below the designation of Intermediate on the State-approved Arizona English Language Learner Assessment be pulled out of mainstream classes for four hours a day and grouped by similar proficiency (not by grades/ages) and taught English syntax, semantics, ...
major federal and state language and assessment policies: (a) AZ LEARNS (2001), Arizona's high-stakes testing and school accountability program; (b) No Child Left Behind (2002); and (c) Proposition 203 (2000), which places restrictions on programs for English language learner (ELL) students...
The purpose for this research study was to determine whether the Arizona English Language Development (ELD) model, a highly structured English acquisition model, contributed to high school English Language Learner (ELL) achievement in reading and writing, and whether the model accomplished the one ...
English-onlySeveral states, including Arizona, have enacted English-only legislation, within the past decade, impacting the schooling of students who are identified as English language learner (ELLS). As a result, ELLS in Arizona are assigned to a prescriptive program—apart from their fluent ...