Volume 1, Issue 19 – New Ideas for 2nd Language Learners

Welcome to this week’s edition of Best Practices Weekly. Today we’ll be discussing new ideas for teaching 2nd language learners.

There is a great deal of sometimes divergent research occurring about how best to teach students who are learning a second language (most pressingly, English Language Learners). In an article for Reading Research Quarterly, Hossein Nassaji, professor of applied linguistics at the University of Victoria, reviews and summarizes key lessons from two new books on the topic.

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