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Esol Educational Programs For Secondary Slife: Planning For Educational Equity, Terri L. Mossgrove
Esol Educational Programs For Secondary Slife: Planning For Educational Equity, Terri L. Mossgrove
USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations
Students with Limited or Interrupted Formal Education (SLIFE) are a sub-group of English Learners (ELs). Policies related to the language education programming for secondary SLIFE in United States public brick and mortar schools were examined through applied policy research using Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) for document analysis. Documents for this analysis included the 1990 Florida Consent Decree, District English Language Learner (ELL) Plans, as well as district English Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) Programs, and a sampling of school based ESOL program information shared on public facing websites. The study focused on current practices in one state related to secondary …