Long-Term Success for Experienced Multilinguals

by Tan Huynh, Beth Skelton

Affirm the linguistic, cultural, and experiential assets that multilinguals bring into the classroom.


Now is the time to push past the limits of the long-term English learner (LTEL) label and embrace a new way of honoring secondary multilinguals’ valuable life experiences and academic potential. By focusing on experienced multilinguals’ strengths and what teachers can do, you’ll discover new avenues for teaching the academic language skills required for them to process content lessons and clearly communicate discipline-specific ideas.


This concise guide presents an easy-to-implement cross-curricular instructional framework specifically designed for secondary content teachers. Practical, research-based, and classroom-tested  this book



Four essential actions that foster the conditions for experienced multilinguals to reach the highest grade-level content and language proficiency
Specific strategies with "try it out" prompts to encourage implementation
Templates and anchor charts for structuring lessons
Vignettes and stories from both the student and teacher perspective

There is nothing lacking with experienced multilinguals. All they need are the right conditions to unlock their potential—so they can express themselves as the mathematicians, scientists, historians, writers, and artists they know themselves to be.

Genres: Education

264 pages, Kindle Edition

Published April 26, 2023

Reviews

[Shaeley Santiago · Rating 5 out of 5]

What I personally appreciated most about this book is the reframing of the terminology "Long-term English Learners (LTEL)" to "Experienced Multilinguals (EMs)." That's just the first chapter of the book, though. For content teachers or those newer to working with ML/ELs, their favorite part may be the many practical examples of types and ways in which to provide scaffolding to help Experienced Multilingual (EMs) be more successful in school. And then there is Huynh & Skelton's instructional framework which puts the pieces together into a systemic approach using the metaphor of an orchard (complete with sketchnotes). Of course Huynh and Skelton model the use of scaffolding throughout the book with chapter sketchnotes and summaries; charts, tables, and graphics on the majority of pages in the book; try it out and reflection prompts embedded in each chapter; and templates available online. The practical, classroom-tested approaches detailed in this book make it a valuable resource for teachers of multilingual learners (MLs).

[Kelly · Rating 5 out of 5]

Absolutely phenomenal! This book is one of the most visually appealing and engaging professional books I've ever read. The thought behind its organization as well as it's accessible breakdown of ideas with reinforcing analogies make it comprehensible and readily applicable to a variety of contexts. Ideas are thoroughly explained and the book is chock full of resources. Can you imagine if all content and ELD teachers taught with backwards design to make content comprehensible and teach academic language in EVERY subject? This book gives you a plan to make that happen. Highly recommend and hope this author duo publishes more in the future!