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Diane August is a senior research scientist at the Center for Applied Linguistics. She is also a co-principal investigator for the National Research and Development Center on English language learners. In the past she was an educational consultant in the areas of federal and state education policy, literacy, program improvement, and evaluation and testing. She spent about 10 years as a public teacher and school administrator and received her PH.D. in education in 1981 from Stanford.

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"If I were developing a program, I would have the ESL teacher work very collaboratively with the mainstream teacher to make sure ELs access grade level appropriate content and I would also put these kids through a fairly structured English as a foreign language, or in their case English as a second language course that focuses on form and meaning concurrently."

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I have included a playlist of an interview conducted with Diane August. In the first video she discusses the importance of ESL instructors and mainstream teachers working closely together to help ELLs to be taught grade level content and help improve English proficiency.

In the other videos Diane August discusses other components of effect language instruction.

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Diane August - Language Instructions - YouTube

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CREATE (Center for Research on the Educational Achievement and Teaching of English Language Learners)

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CREATE (Center for Research on the Educational Achievement and Teaching of English Language Learners)

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Diane August was one of the researchers involved in the multi-year program of research which was designed to develop language and literacy skills while building grade level skills across content areas. Below is a graphic of the the structure of the research.

Research Years 1-4:
Researches spent the first four years of the study developing individual interventions inside the classroom in middle grades in collaboration with teachers. They focused on content areas such as social studies, English language arts, and science.

Research Years 5-6:
Next the researchers studied the individual projects and their integration into a two-year school-wide intervention. SIOP professional development were provided to social studies, English Language arts, and science teachers.

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Improving Science and Vocabulary Learning of English Language Learners

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Improving Science and Vocabulary Learning of English Language Learners

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Diane August, Lauren Artzi, and Julie Mazrum conducted research on effective science instruction for ELLs, the role of English language proficiency, learning in a second language, and first language knowledge in science learning.

In the study it was found that when good science teaching is combined with scaffolding and a focus on language development there is more academic success seen in English language learners.

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The two pictures below are a lesson which follows the interventions described in Dr. Diane August's research

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Briefs and Findings from CREATE research

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Briefs and Findings from CREATE research

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http://www.cal.org/create/pdfs/create-briefs-collection.pdf