{"id":2074,"date":"2023-07-06T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-07-06T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/education\/blog\/2023\/07\/06\/accelerate-learning-for-multilingual-learners-of-english\/"},"modified":"2024-07-18T14:23:23","modified_gmt":"2024-07-18T21:23:23","slug":"accelerate-learning-for-multilingual-learners-of-english","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/education\/blog\/2023\/07\/accelerate-learning-for-multilingual-learners-of-english\/","title":{"rendered":"Accelerate learning for multilingual learners of English"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
At least 350 languages<\/a> are spoken in the U.S. and, according to the National Education Association<\/a>, by 2025, 1 out of 4 children in U.S. classrooms will be a multilingual learner of English (MLE). Microsoft and Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL)<\/a> have joined together to help you meet the needs of all MLEs in your classroom by providing valuable activities<\/a> that strengthen language development using Microsoft\u2019s Learning Accelerators. The guide provides concrete, practical classroom activities across a range of contexts and student proficiency levels for use in classrooms across Elementary, Secondary, Adult, Teacher Training for MLEs who are beginner, intermediate, or advanced.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Learning Accelerators<\/a> in Microsoft Teams for Education can help enhance language and literacy instruction and strengthen student independence in English language development. Immersive Reader, Reading Progress, Reading Coach, and Education Insights are four solutions you can use in your classroom to support all students’ reading, writing, listening, and speaking skills. Explore how each of these solutions can provide differentiated, individualized support for MLEs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Reading Progress<\/a> frees up your time by streamlining the process for creating, reviewing, and analyzing individualized reading assignments. This solution can be used to support and track your students\u2019 reading fluency. Students record their reading while their errors, accuracy rate, and correct words per minute are automatically analyzed. Learn more about how you can use Reading Progress to support the needs of MLEs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Pronunciation sensitivity adjustment in Reading Progress in Microsoft Teams for Education.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Reading Coach<\/a> provides students with an opportunity to independently practice challenging words while providing real-time coaching. It automatically generates individualized exercises based on each student\u2019s specific needs. By default, Reading Coach is turned on for all Reading Progress assignments. It can also be accessed through Immersive Reader via Microsoft 365 apps like Word, OneNote, and PowerPoint. Learn more about how you can use Reading Coach to enhance MLE\u2019s language development.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Challenge word practice in Reading Coach in Microsoft Teams for Education.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Immersive Reader<\/a> provides students with the supports they need to access text in English, regardless of language proficiency level, and promotes educational equity in the classroom. With a range of available options, it allows students to customize their learning experience and enables you to provide a variety of language scaffolds within one solution. Learn more about how you can use Immersive Reader to ensure that all MLEs have access to grade level text.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Word translation from English to Spanish and picture dictionary in Immersive Reader.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Education Insights<\/a> in Teams for Education aggregates student data to provide you with quick, actionable insights at the individual or class level to amplify student language development. This saves you time, so you can focus on what\u2019s important \u2013 your students and their academic and linguistic needs. Learn more about how you can use Education Insights to inform your instruction for MLEs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n Generating a practice assignment from a challenging word cloud in Education Insights in Microsoft Teams for Education.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Our Learning Accelerators offer you countless ways to support multilingual learners and scaffold instruction more efficiently. As an organization, we are committed to equity in education and deliver accessible, inclusive solutions that meet all learners’ academic, social emotional, and linguistic needs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Learn more about Microsoft Education literacy solutions<\/a> and download TESOL\u2019s Guide to Learning Accelerators \u2013 Literacy Addition<\/a> to explore activities developed to help you progress students\u2019 English language development.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" At least 350 languages are spoken in the U.S. and, according to the National Education Association, by 2025, 1 out of 4 children in U.S. classrooms will be a multilingual learner of English (MLE). Microsoft and Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) have joined together to help you meet the needs of all MLEs in your classroom by providing valuable activities that strengthen language development using Microsoft\u2019s Learning Accelerators. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":387,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ms_queue_force_push":false,"ms_queue_id":"","ep_exclude_from_search":false,"_classifai_error":"","_classifai_text_to_speech_error":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[37,26,21],"tags":[],"audience":[150],"content-type":[155,327],"product":[178,159],"topic":[165,168,164],"coauthors":[231],"class_list":["post-2074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-accelerate-learning","category-accessibility","category-educators","audience-educators","content-type-news","content-type-tips-and-guides","product-microsoft-365","product-microsoft-teams","topic-accessibility","topic-immersive-reader","topic-learning-accelerators"],"yoast_head":"\n1. 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