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Making content comprehensible for english language learners: The SIOP model
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Bilingual Research Journal
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October 1, 1999
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Echevarria J., Vogt, M. E., & Short D. J. (Eds.). (2000) Making content comprehensible for english language learners: The SIOP model. Boston, MA: Allyn & Bacon, 212.
Despite the explosion in language programs, there is widespread inability to speak the language varieties necessary for access to economic resources and political power. The great linguistic paradox of our time is that societies which dedicate enormous resources to language teaching and learning have been unable-or unwilling-to remove the powerful linguistic barriers to full participation in the major institutions of modern society. (Tollefson, 1991, p. 7)
For new English language learners (ELLs) the challenge to ...