Information found from the SFSD website

Sioux Falls School District 2005-2006 ELL Data (K-5)
School Name
School population
ELL population
Jane Addams
154
0
LBA
295
29
Cleveland
708
111
Discovery
665
17
Harvey Dunn
522
7
Family Immersion Center
55
55
Eugene Field
274
6
Robert Frost
397
5
Garfield
443
35
John Harris
638
3
Hawthorne
339
26
Hayward
512
26
Oscar Howe
523
4
Jefferson
256
3
JFK
651
15
Longfellow
263
92
Lowell
385
21
Horace Mann
243
0
Terry Redlin
445
101
Renberg
140
0
Anne Sullivan
646
84
Mark Twain
233
6
Laura Wilder
434
4

More sources

The offical Sioux Falls school district website

School Falls School District." 11 Apr. 2007 http://www.sf.k12.sd.us/schools.php.



Wilen, Diane K. "English Language Learners: an Introductory Guide for Educators." National Association of School Psychologist (2004): 1-3. 11 Apr. 2007 .

Bits and Pieces of My paper

Many teacher are not fully equipped to teach ELL students, perhaps their school training did not prepare them for this rising epidemic. Requiring all students to be in the regular classroom is not only a suggestion; it is a law.

Researchers say attitudes are different between teachers depending on their certification or endorsement

A positive aspect that comes out of mainstreaming ELL students into the regular classroom is that if you submerge these students with there peers where this is only English being spoken. Quiet rapidly, ELL students will learn the language.

Book- Teaching English Learners

Diaz-Rico, Lynne T. Teaching English Learners. Boston: Pearson Education, Inc., 2004. 1-422.

Book-Working with Second Language Learners

Cary, Stephen. Working with Second Language Learners. Portsmouth: Heinemann, 2000. 1-122.

Book- How Languages are LearnedLightbown, Patsy M., and Nina Spanda. How Languages are Learned. 2nd ed. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1999. 1-170.

Important point in my paper

Initially an ELL student is a student that knows little or no English. A large number of the time ELL students are refugees fleeing from their native land with their families to peruse happiness in America. Even though, ELL students are in a much better situation, there are still many challenges they endure. Not only do ELL students not know English they also are not accustomed to the way Americans do things. Today, “the number of students who are English Language Learners (ELLs) continues to increase across the country, with the most impact in California,” says Zaida McCall-Perez an associate professor and director from Cross-Cultural Teacher Certification Programs. Furthermore, higher populated areas of the United States are going to a have a significantly higher number of ELL students. According, to the national clearinghouse for English language acquision ( c.d.a) ELL represent the fastest two segments of the school age population ( Hill and Flynn 2).