Language Differences Media Lab: Teaching English Language Learners

About the Language Differences MediaLab

This website hosts multimedia resources that aim to promote teacher learning and enhance the quality of education offered to African American English (AAE) speakers and English Language Learners (ELL) who struggle to learn and/or are receiving special education services. Visitors to this website will be able to explore multimedia tools to understand how student linguistic and cultural practices can be used as assets and resources to support the learning of English Language Learners (ELL) and speakers of AAE.

This MediaLab is an innovative tool for professional learning activities with groups of practitioners in formal short-term events or in long-term efforts of professional learning communities. Visitors to this site will be able to post, watch, and comment on multimedia artifacts about best practices for teaching English Language Learners (ELL) and speakers of AAE who receive special educations services or struggle to learn. The Language Differences MediaLab, in this way, generates ongoing conversations about how to best serve ELLs and speakers of AAE.