Developing Educator Expertise to Work with Adolescent English Learners – Module 5

By Meg Gebhard & Chalais Carter

This module explores the challenges many multilingual learners, often known as English Learners, face as they navigate public schooling and prepare for their futures. It will prepare you to set high expectations and provide high levels of scaffolding in order to enable them to read, write, and critique complex disciplinary texts at the secondary level while simultaneously maintaining a strong sense of the value of their linguistic and cultural resources in a multilingual world.

• Overview

• Introduction

• Part 1: The Embedded Historical, Economic, and Political Contexts of Schooling

• Part 2: Systemic Functional Linguistics and a Meaning-Making Perspective of Language

• Part 3: Genres, Registers, and the Teaching and Learning Cycle

• References