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Dominican University of California

2016

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Effect Of Class Size On Teaching Middle School English Language Learners, Carolina N. Garcia May 2016

Effect Of Class Size On Teaching Middle School English Language Learners, Carolina N. Garcia

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Class size is an issue in American K-12 education that researchers have examined and debated for years. Documented research studies conducted on the impact of class size on student achievement have not come to concrete conclusions due to the minimal influence of federal class size reduction programs throughout the United States. Furthermore, despite the vast body of literature concerning the class size and its impact on student achievement, focusing primarily on students in the elementary grades, there is a distinct lack of scholarship focusing on the effect of class size on teaching English Language Learners (ELL) and attempt to fill …