Supporting English Language Learners in Social Studies: Language-focused Strategies

Abstract

With the significant enrollment increase of English Language Learners (ELLs) nationwide, social studies teachers face challenges to educate these students. As a response to the literature of preparing all content teachers to work with ELLs, this article introduces three teacher-friendly language-focused strategies. These strategies help social studies teachers to address the linguistic demands in this specific discipline for the purpose of content mastery. The author first discusses the linguistic challenges in social studies and argues that commonly used cognitively based strategies often fail to provide sufficient scaffolding for ELLs. The author then introduces three language-focused strategies with examples.

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