INTRODUCTION
Emergent bilinguals (EBs) are the fastest growing population in public schools in the United States.
Kena et al. (2016) reports: Increment of 9.3 percent (4.5 millions) of bilingual students in public schools from 2003 – 2004 to 2013 -2014
In states, such as Kansas the increment is about 4.6 percentage points. In others, such as Arizona, the increment is 9.8 percentage points. In 2008, the highest percentage of EBs (77.2%) were speakers of Spanish.
SIGNIFICANCE
Mainstream classrooms, educators still struggle to support EBs and their families (Maxwell, 2012).
Menken (2010) and Menken and Solorza (2014) report that educators believe that EBs will perform lower than their peers, …show more content…
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