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Guerrero, Michael D. – Urban Education, 2004
This article examines the primary assumption underlying the recent passage of propositions aimed at meeting the need of English language learners (ELLs). The assumption is that English language learners normally need only one year of intensive structured English immersion to learn English well enough to be academically successful in an all-English…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Academic Discourse, English (Second Language), State Legislation