Instructional Design with the Multilingual Learner in Mind by Melissa DeMull

2025-07-08 18:04:38 UTC

EML Students

2025-07-08 18:04:40 UTC

TANF eligible (temporary assistant for needy families), diverse, underrepresented in technology careers.

2025-07-08 18:04:53 UTC

A diverse suburban high school in Georgia with many students who have lived in our district since kindergarten as well as newcomers with a wide variety of language backgrounds

2025-07-08 18:05:25 UTC

Pretty interesting mix of many ethnic backgrounds in an urban setting. Growing ML population, mostly Spanish speaking, but also students coming from Nigeria, Eritrea, Yemen!

2025-07-08 18:05:35 UTC

EL students from Haiti, Brazil, and other Latin American countries. High need population.

techkim — 2025-07-08 18:05:40 UTC

We work with multiple schools and districts across Virginia and Colombia, so a wide variety backgrounds, incomes, languages, etc.

kathy_bekkemellom — 2025-07-08 18:05:52 UTC

Mostly white upper middle class but a constantly increasing hispanic population (mostly from Venezuela). Utah

2025-07-08 18:05:58 UTC

Mainly white with 30% made up by different minorities

2025-07-08 18:06:17 UTC

My middle school serves grades 6-8 in Silver Spring, Maryland. We are a magnet school, so some students come from out of consortium. We have a large population of ML students.

2025-07-08 18:06:56 UTC

14 out of 26 in my last 8th grade spoke Quichay and Spanish with ELL

2025-07-08 18:07:45 UTC

Following the pace of the curriculum, lack of background in tech terminology.

2025-07-08 18:07:56 UTC

The lack of background knowledge in most of the subjects, culture, and, of course, a language.

2025-07-08 18:08:00 UTC

Learning new technical language that is new to all students while also learning conversational English

2025-07-08 18:08:04 UTC

Syntax!

techkim — 2025-07-08 18:08:16 UTC

The English basis of many programming languages.

kathy_bekkemellom — 2025-07-08 18:08:29 UTC

Language!!!! Lack of desire to learn English because they don't want to be here. Also many of them have not a lot of school experience.

2025-07-08 18:08:48 UTC

Cognitive load and fine motor skills

2025-07-08 18:09:03 UTC

Support is needed for general education teachers to teach MLs. Many of our gen ed teachers have taken their SEI classes a long time ago.

2025-07-08 18:09:37 UTC

Limited experience with technology and it's terminology, fear of asking questions and speaking with other students, collaboration with non-MLL students.

2025-07-08 18:11:04 UTC

We have many SLIFE students who have limited and interrupted formal education.

2025-07-08 18:14:08 UTC

16 languages spoke in school District wide 70% ML

2025-07-08 18:59:36 UTC

Having projects where students interact with each other, specifically where they have vocabulary.