Bilingual Problems of Practice Protocol and Discoveries: Supporting In-Service Teachers of English Learners During COVID-19

Gonzalez, Jordan

doi:10.22492/issn.2188-112x.2022.1

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“…One of the most significant challenges for ELLs caused by schools' swift transition to online instruction at the beginning of the pandemic was the lack of access to digital devices and the Internet at home (Gonzalez, 2022, Vawter & McMurtrie, 2022. Concerns about a "digital divide" of unequal home access to computers, the Internet, and other technology along racial and socioeconomic long pre-date the pandemic (Muñiz, 2019;Warschauer et al, 2004).…”

Section: Online Ell Literacy Instructional Challengementioning

confidence: 99%

Literacy Instruction for English Language Learners in Indiana Elementary Schools before and during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Hai-yan

Wright²,

Morita-Mullaney³

2023

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This mixed-methods study investigates the impact of COVID-19 on elementary school literacy instruction for English Language Learners (ELLs) across four Indiana school districts. Classroom lesson videos and observation rubrics for 19 teachers were collected from the beginning of 2020-2021 school year (during the pandemic) and compared with those collected pre-pandemic from the beginning of school years of 2018-2019 (n=7) and 2019-2020 (n=9). Findings demonstrate schools made efforts during the pandemic to offer quality literacy instruction within socially distanced classrooms, online synchronous instruction, and hybrid learning environments. However, teachers spent less time on two key literacy components: vocabulary and comprehension, and less time in small group/pair activities, resulting in lower rubric scores related to vocabulary and oral language development. As vocabulary and comprehension facilitated through peer interaction are central to quality literacy instruction, less attention to these areas illuminates the pandemic’s impact on literacy and language development for ELL students.

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Section: Online Ell Literacy Instructional Challengementioning

confidence: 99%