Dual Language Learner Resource Series

Every day, teachers and others strive to provide high-quality learning experiences to young dual language learners (DLLs).

All children, including DLLs, can benefit socially and academically from classrooms with high-quality educator-child interactions as measured by CLASS®. While the CLASS tool is not intended to measure specific DLL best practices, several recent studies find CLASS to be a valid instrument for predicting development and learning among DLLs.

Teachstone developed these resources to help teachers:

• • identify and use key best practices that benefit DLLs,
  • see what effective interactions look like in classrooms where children are learning the language of instruction, and
  • connect to additional online resources.

On this page, you will find resources to help you learn about teaching practices to support dual language learners and how these practices crosswalk with the Pre-K CLASS dimensions.