[Listen Again] Ep. 109: The Right to Read with Second Language Educator, Kim Lockhart
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The Right to Read and the Challenges Faced by Second Language Learners
This chapter discusses the experience of second language students in French immersion programs and the lack of support they receive if they struggle with learning to read. The speaker shares their personal experience teaching in various countries and realizing that students in English as a Second Language programs are provided with interventions and instructional support, while second language students in French immersion programs are often deemed unsuitable and transferred to the English program. The speaker then discusses their exploration of the Orton Gillingham approach and their efforts to bring it into the public education system.
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