Academic Success of English Language Learners: Are Mainstream Teachers Underprepared?

dc.contributor.authorCovarrubias, Maritza
dc.contributor.authorTeemant, Annela
dc.contributor.authorBhathena, Cathy
dc.date.accessioned2016-03-01T19:59:01Z
dc.date.available2016-03-01T19:59:01Z
dc.date.issued2015-04-17
dc.descriptionposter abstracten_US
dc.description.abstractThe population of English Language Learners (ELLs) in Indiana schools has increased over the years and will keep increasing. However, the graduation rates of ELLs and their standardized test scores are not improving. After reading various articles about why this might be occurring and using my personal experience as an ELL, there was one factor that stood out to me: mainstream teachers are underprepared to work with ELLs. The purpose of this research project is to investigate how prepared mainstream teachers feel to work with ELLs and what, if any, are the barriers that keep them from doing so. For this project, I will be using mixed methods research: qualitative and quantitative. Qualitative research will be the primary method and will be collected in the form of teacher interviews. These interviews will include questions about how teachers feel about working with ELLs and the teachers’ observations about how ELLs function in their classrooms. The qualitative research will be supported by quantitative research that will be collected through surveys and classroom observations of teacher pedagogy. The overall goal of this project is to help make classrooms places where ELLs can be academically successful and improve graduations rates and test scores.en_US
dc.identifier.citationMaritza Covarrubias, Annela Teemant, and Cathy Bhathena. (2015, April 17). Academic Success of English Language Learners: Are Mainstream Teachers Underprepared? Poster session presented at IUPUI Research Day 2015, Indianapolis, Indiana.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1805/8613
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.publisherOffice of the Vice Chancellor for Researchen_US
dc.subjectEnglish Language Learners (ELLs)en_US
dc.subjectIndiana schoolsen_US
dc.subjectAcademic Successen_US
dc.subjectgraduation ratesen_US
dc.titleAcademic Success of English Language Learners: Are Mainstream Teachers Underprepared?en_US
dc.typePosteren_US
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