Learning Unlimited: Strategies for Students with Limited or Interrupted Formal Education and Other Struggling Multilingual Learners

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Learning Unlimited: Strategies for Students with Limited or Interrupted Formal Education and Other Struggling Multilingual Learners

Nicoleta Filimon, Christi Cartwright-Lacerda

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Multilingual learners are more prevalent than ever in today's diverse classrooms, and within that population, students with limited or interrupted formal education (SLIFE) face a particularly complex set of challenges.

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Introduction: Understanding the Struggles of Students with Limited or Interrupted Formal Education and Other Multilingual Learners

Chapter 1. Speak Up: Strategies for Supporting Academic Conversations

Chapter 2. Creating Aha Moments: Developing Reading Comprehension Skills

Chapter 3. Cracking the Code: Achieving Success in Academic Writing

About the authors

Nicoleta Filimon has been a teacher, dean of curriculum and instruction, assistant principal, education consultant, and teacher educator. She has taught ESL/ELD to MLs and SLIFE for more than 12 years in Massachusetts. Since 2006, she has presented on the subject of educating MLs and SLIFE locally, regionally, and internationally.

Nicoleta is the recipient of several awards, including the University of Massachusetts Lowell (UMASS Lowell) Outstanding Dissertation in Practice Award (2023), MATSOL Teacher of the Year Award (2018), Sontag Prize in Urban Education (2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017), and Haverty Scholar in Education Award (2007). She recently received her doctorate in leadership in schooling from UMASS Lowell. A multilingual learner herself, Nicoleta is originally from Romania.

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Christi Cartwright-Lacerda has been an ESL/ELD teacher of MLs and SLIFE for the past 10 years. She is the recipient of several awards, including the Rising Star Teacher of the Year Award from her school dis-trict (2018), NoVo Foundation SEL Innovation Fund Award (2018), Sontag Prize in Urban Education (2017, 2021, 2022, 2023), and MATSOL Linda Schulman Innovation Fund Award (2018, 2020).

She has presented on the subject of social-emotional learning for MLs and strategies for educating MLs and SLIFE locally, regionally, and internationally since 2015. Christi also works as an education consultant, sharing instructional strategies for newcomer MLs and SLIFE.