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Critical Discourse Analysis of the Terminology and Definitions of Multilingual Learners across U.S. Policies vs. the WIDA ELD Standards

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Dai Gu; Sujin Kim – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2025

This paper explores how "English learners (ELs)" or who we prefer to call "multilingual learners" are labeled and positioned in policy documents and leading education research documents respectively. Attending to the urgent call for serving the growing number of linguistically and culturally diverse learners, this study delves…

Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, English Learners, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning