Fostering Academic Success for English Language Learners Section 4. For a printer friendly copy, try downloading the original Word version . Increased involvement of minority-language speaking families in children s education because of home language use. Students may be unprepared for transition to mainstream classrooms. Integrated TBE Increases academic and social contact of minority and majority students through integrated classrooms.
Students learn language and acquire positive cross-cultural attitudes from each other and teachers.
Evaluations indicate effectiveness in promoting academic achievement and high levels of language proficiency for both groups of students. Pull-Out Students with different primary languages can be in the same class. Flexible in accommodating small numbers of ELLs with diverse languages. Very costly as additional ESL resource teachers must be used. Does not build on students primary language for academic development Pull-out may stigmatize students or have them miss content instruction Structured Immersion Allows for English content instruction for intermediate ELLs.