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What is ""ML" or "MLL"?
What is ""ML" or "MLL"?
Multilingual Language (ML) classes are meant to support students whose first language is NOT English. ML classes focus on strengthening a student's ability to listen, speak, read and write in English with comprehension in an academic setting.
Multi-Linguals Learners (MLLs) will receive academic support through pull-out or push-in instruction.
All ML students in New Jersey are administered an annual language assessment, WIDA ACCESS. This helps to monitor and track an individual student's strengths, weaknesses, and progress in acquiring the English language. Lessons throughout the year are aligned to meet WIDA's standards for multilingual language learners.
The goal for a MultiLingual Language Learner is to show progress in their language acquisition. While they grow from beginner to an advanced ML student, they are also immersed in cultural and social activities to ensure they can feel comfortable to contribute and participate at school.
The goal for a MultiLingual Language Learner is to show progress in their language acquisition. While they grow from beginner to an advanced ML student, they are also immersed in cultural and social activities to ensure they can feel comfortable to contribute and participate at school.
5 things you may not know about Multilingual Learners...
5 things you may not know about Multilingual Learners...
Fact #1: One of the fastest growing student populations in the country is MLs.
Fact #1: One of the fastest growing student populations in the country is MLs.
But did you know: There are about 5 million English Language Learners in the United States, or about 9 percent of all public school students, and the number is increasing. In fact, by the year 2025, nearly one out of every four public school students will be an English language learner. Since the passage of the Bilingual Education Act in 1968, all public schools are required to offer English Language Learners an appropriate level of education.
Fact #2: All students have the same natural ability to acquire language skills (unless otherwise diagnosed with a language disorder)
Fact #2: All students have the same natural ability to acquire language skills (unless otherwise diagnosed with a language disorder)
But did you know: Although all kids have the same natural ability to acquire language, some students have a more difficult time learning English based on their native language. For example, students whose first language uses the Latin alphabet or has a sentence structure similar to English may have an easier time acquiring English language skills compared to those whose native language uses characters, like Mandarin, or is written from right to left, like Arabic or Hebrew. Additionally, depending on culture and parental literacy, ELLs can face a number of factors with regard to oral English language development including limited exposure to spoken English in the home.
Fact #3: Being bilingual promotes all areas of cognitive functioning.
Fact #3: Being bilingual promotes all areas of cognitive functioning.
But did you know: People who speak two languages have also been shown to have more efficient monitoring systems. According to a 2009 study from the International Journal of Cognitive Science, monolinguals and bilinguals respond similarly when the brain's monitoring system is not under stress, but in conditions requiring high monitoring demands, bilinguals were faster. The bilingual brain is used to handling two languages at the same time. This develops skills for functions such as inhibition, switching attention, and working memory.
Fact #4: Not all ELLs are immigrants.
Fact #4: Not all ELLs are immigrants.
But did you know: More than half of ELL students are born in the United States. According to the National Education Association, second-generation students—defined as children born in the United States to at least one immigrant parent—currently constitute 23 percent of the nation’s children and 75 percent of elementary English Language Learners. According to the Obama-Biden Transition Project, 75 percent of ELL students in grades K—5 and 57 percent of ELL children in grades 6—12 are native born.
Fact #5: Spanish is the most common first language spoken among English Language Learners.
Fact #5: Spanish is the most common first language spoken among English Language Learners.
But did you know: According to the Migration Policy Institute, while Spanish is by far the most common first language, English language students in the United States speak more than 150 languages including Chinese, Vietnamese, and French/Haitian Creole. In fact, among the top 10 first languages spoken by ELLs, 6 of them (Chinese, Korean, Hindi, Arabic, Russian, Hmong/Miao) are not based on the Latin alphabet like English.
Source: Lexia Learning
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