The "Supporting Language Learners" article, written by Jo Ann Candy, Thomas E. Hodges, and Clara Lee Brown, discusses the various benefits of incorporating various instructional practices and techniques into mathematical lessons to help support English language learners. The article goes on to discuss the additions to the educational programs that the incorporation of these programs provides, and its ability to ensure the providing of an excellent and equitable program for all.
I personally feel that this is a very important topic, and this is the reason that I chose to focus on it. Many people underestimate the struggles that English language learners face every day in the educational environment. Not only are these students facing set back in a social setting but an academic one as well. On top of making extra efforts to learn the English language, the students must also incorporate the differences in subject instruction from their native language. Mathematics is one subject that is very diverse and taught in many different ways in different countries. This difference in instruction makes it difficult for students to grasp seemingly basic concepts when learning a new language and a new system of instruction.
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