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OBEWL is making available a set of Topic Briefs on ELL/MLL best practices prepared by Aida Walqui and others at WestEd, "a nonpartisan, nonprofit research, development, and service agency working with education and other communities throughout the United States and abroad." 听Dr. Walqui 听has had a long and successful career in the development of teacher expertise to work with Multilingual Learners in deep, rigorous, and accelerated ways in both their family and second languages.

Following are the links to these valuable resources:

鈥婽opic Brief 1: Quality Education for English Language Learners/ Multilingual Learners: Why We Need it and How We Can Achieve听It.

Topic Brief 2: Quality Student Interactions: Why Are They Crucial to Language Learning and How Can We Support Them?

Topic Brief 3: De-Mystifying Complex Texts: What Are 鈥淐omplex鈥� Texts and How Can We Ensure听ELLs/MLLs听Can Access听Them?

Topic Brief 4: The Zone of Proximal Development: An Affirmative Perspective in Teaching ELLs/MLLs.

Topic Brief 5: Dispelling the Myth of 鈥淓nglish Only鈥�: Understanding the Importance of the First Language in Second Language Learning