Figure 1. Languages spoken in EL classrooms.
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99%
90%
80%
70%
60%
62%
58%
50%
40%
49%
47%
40%
30%
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20%
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22%
18%
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Over 50% of the teachers reported their
school as suburban; 31% taught in an urban
school. The majority of the teachers (70%)
estimated the EL population of their school to
be less than 20%.
Teachers were asked what types of classes
and assessments their schools provided for ELs.
Over 80% offered pull-out ESOL instruction,
52% offered after-school tutoring, and 48% had
content-based ESOL instruction. All of the
teachers noted their ELs were assessed using
World-Class Instructional Design and
Assessment (WIDA). W-APT is given to new
students and kindergarteners, while WIDAACCESS is administered every year to all EL
students.
12%
10%9%
5%
Spanish
Other
Chinese
Vietnamese
Arabic
Russian
Korean
Tagalog
Hindi
Urdu
French/Creole
Somali
Bosnian
Farsi/Persian
Hmong
Punjabi
Ukrainian
Bulgarian
Cambodian
reading, writing, and oral language
development. ESOL teachers were asked to
mark which ones they consistently used on a
regular basis. Twenty-six types of literacy
materials were listed; the majority o bFV6