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OBEWL is making available a set of Topic Briefs on ELL/MLL best practices prepared by Aida Walqui and others at WestEd, "a nonpartisan, nonprofit research, development, and service agency working with education and other communities throughout the United States and abroad." ��Dr. Walqui ��has had a long and successful career in the development of teacher expertise to work with Multilingual Learners in deep, rigorous, and accelerated ways in both their family and second languages.

Following are the links to these valuable resources:

​Topic Brief 1: Quality Education for English Language Learners/ Multilingual Learners: Why We Need it and How We Can Achieve��It.

Topic Brief 2: Quality Student Interactions: Why Are They Crucial to Language Learning and How Can We Support Them?

Topic Brief 3: De-Mystifying Complex Texts: What Are “Complex” Texts and How Can We Ensure��ELLs/MLLs��Can Access��Them?

Topic Brief 4: The Zone of Proximal Development: An Affirmative Perspective in Teaching ELLs/MLLs.

Topic Brief 5: Dispelling the Myth of “English Only”: Understanding the Importance of the First Language in Second Language Learning