This is Jennifer Gonzalez welcoming you to episode 2-11 of the Cult of Pedagogy podcast.

In this episode, we're going to talk about students who are no longer considered new English

learners, but still need support and how you can provide that.

We're calling these students experienced multilinguals.

The population of English learners in our schools continues to grow every year.

If you're listening to this, you have probably taught at least a few students whose first

language is not English.

In many school system students who are just starting to learn English are given lots

of support through separate programs or classes with teachers who specialize in building

language proficiency.

But eventually they graduate out of these programs and attend regular classes with everyone

else.

At that point, they are assumed to have enough of a grasp on the English language to perform

as well as peers who have spoken English since birth.

But in many cases, that assumption is incorrect.

While these students, a group we're calling experienced multilinguals, are probably quite

comfortable and fluent with speaking English socially.

They may still be unfamiliar with the academic language used in science, social studies, math,

and other content areas.

There are specific strategies that can make a huge difference in how well these students

perform, and that's what we'll be talking about in today's episode.

My guests are Todd Winn and Beth Skeleton, two educators who have had decades of experience

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