Research that Benefits Children and Families—Uplifting Stories

For this week blog assignment I decided to look for a research that has help teacher to teach English-language learner. There are a great number of Spanish speaking students in my district and the population still growing. By researching the Walden Library for research in this particular subject I discover the following research that summarizes the importance of incorporating technology in to the curriculum and lessons and the benefits for not only the ELL’s but for all students.

“This study compared traditional and multimedia-enhanced read-aloud vocabulary instruction and investigated whether the effects differed for English-language learners (ELLs) and non-English-language learners (non-ELLs). Results indicate that although there was no added benefit of multimedia-enhanced instruction for non-ELLs, there was a positive effect for ELLs on a researcher-designed measure and on a measure of general vocabulary knowledge. Furthermore, for children in the multimedia-enhanced condition, the gap between non-ELLs and ELLs in knowledge of instructional words was closed, and the gap in general vocabulary knowledge was narrowed”( Silverman, R., & Hines, S. 2009,p.305).

References:

Silverman, R., & Hines, S. (2009). The Effects of Multimedia-Enhanced Instruction on the Vocabulary of English-Language Learners and Non-English-Language Learners in Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade. Journal Of Educational Psychology, 101(2), 305-314. DOI: 10.1037/a0014217  305-314