Foundations for Teaching English Language Learners: Research, Theory, Policy, and Practice

Provides information on demographic changes in U. S. schools; language and literacy education; program models; instruction and assessment approaches, methods, and strategies; Common Core and English language proficiency standards and accountability requirements. Includes a companion website.

Wayne E. Wright is a professor and the Barbara I. Cook Chair of Literacy and Language in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction in the College of Education at Purdue University. He provides training for future and current educators in the areas of English as a second language teaching methods, literacy, assessment, technology, and research. Wright has extensive experience as a researcher and practitioner in schools in the United States and internationally.