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**English Language Learner Guide** **By TAL 823 Students**  **Fall, 2008**

INTRODUCTION to Collection

Welcome to the world of Bilingual and English Language Learner (ELL) Education!This guide was written by the students of TAL 823 Bilingual and Multicultural Education class. Its goal is to provide useful information to students, parents, teachers, counselors, administrators and others about important policies, theories, practices and resources related to the education of ELLs. This guide is the result of many hours of work. Students first conducted internet research on topics of interest related to bilingual education. Topics were located on a wiki at **http://bilingualed-resources.wikispaces.com/** Pairs of students were assigned to collaborate and develop a chapter on the topic.Each chapter contains an introduction, main points, links and annotations. Students this semester were working with this Wiki, which enabled them to work on the same document together.This was not always easy as some people found, but everyone got it by the end.In addition, my feedback and final editing was an integral part of the process. As a work-in-progress, there may be minor inconsistencies, errors or links do not work. Feel free to distribute and share all or any part of this guide. We hope that you, the students, parents, and colleagues with whom you work will find this guide useful. If further information is needed about this guide, please contact me at nlemberg@liu.edu Thanks for all your hard work—this is evidence of much learning!LET’S CONTINUE TO ADVOCATE FOR ELLs!

Nancy Lemberger, Ed.D. Associate Professor Long Island University Brooklyn, NY December, 2008