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Musetti, Bernadette; Salas, Spencer; Perez, Theresa – English Journal, 2009
"Newcomers" are English learners who are new to the United States and arrive with limited or interrupted formal schooling. These students have below-grade-level literacy skills in their home language and do not speak English. Newcomers' arrivals to the middle school and high school classrooms often present a formidable "what to…
Descriptors: Language Arts, Second Language Learning, Literacy, Native Speakers