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A program of different activities and a special curriculum that is made to teach ELL students English Language skills. Such as reading, writing, vocabulary, culture, and more.

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The purpose of ESL programs is to help foreign students understand linguistic and cultural knowledge that has to do with academic settings. They are small classes and they study English while also participating in normal school activities to help them understand the culture better. Usually, the classes are Monday-Friday with 3-5 classes a day giving a total of 20-30 hours per week. The classes are usually 40-60 minutes long with 5-10 minute breaks in between. To be an ESL teacher, you need to have a bachelor's degree, a TESOL certificate, teaching experience, an advanced degree, and a valid passport.

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This strategy helps encourage students to know what the word means, how to use it, how to relate it, and how to visually interpret it. 

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One strategy that is used is offering multiple learning strategies like what the picture above showed. This helps students bond with each other and understand that everyone learns differently and it will give everyone the opportunity to understand the topic because they have multiple things to help them understand. Such as reading, writing, drawing, talking, and more.

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One strategy ESL programs use is visual aids. This helps the students connect ideas of different instructions. It gives them more ways to tell a story and understand a story and can help with their memorization of vocabulary.

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Another strategy used is emphasizing academic language production. This will help students practice speaking and understanding better vocabulary words within the English Language.

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Another learning strategy is to use music. Many people can remember things better and have more fun when there is music involved like a song that they can sing along to and listen to.

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Another learning strategy is working as a group and communicating with each other so they can practice their listening skills and their vocabulary.

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One strategy to help engage families is to reassure them that their role is important in helping their child succeed. Just doing things like complimenting their hard work and recognizing their progress.

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Another strategy to help engage families is to help students do their homework to the best of their ability by giving them a good place to do it and making sure they do it every night.

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Another good strategy is making sure that the families stay in contact with the teacher so they can keep track of whether their child is behind or on track because if not, they would need to implement more strategies at home to help.

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A strategy at home that could help if a parent's child is struggling is asking their child what they learned and having a full conversation with them about it.

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Another strategy for parents to help their children while at home is reading and telling stories in their native language.

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