For teachers and teacher educators striving to address a growing number of state mandates relating to the education of English language learners (ELLs), Educating English Language Learners in an Inclusive Environment, Second Edition provides a reader-friendly survey of key topics, including: legal and professional imperatives, cultural concerns, linguistics, literacy instruction, assessment, policy, and politics. This overview will be useful to in-service teachers with little or no preparation for working with ELLs but who nevertheless face legislative demands to teach both academic content and English. It will also be useful to teacher educators trying to squeeze preparation for working with ELLs into already overflowing teacher preparation programs. Though many try, no one text can provide exhaustive information; there is simply too much to learn. This second edition instead provides readers with a road map to critical topics and to specific resources they can use independently to learn more, as they will surely need to do.

Youb Kim holds a doctorate from Michigan State University. She is Associate Professor at the University of Northern Colorado. Her research focuses on teacher preparation and socio-emotional development for English language learners and racial/ethnic and linguistic minority students. Patricia H. Hinchey holds a doctorate from Teachers College, Columbia University. She is Professor Emerita at Penn State and Fellow at the National Education Policy Center. She is author, co-author, editor or co-editor of numerous books and has published many journal articles on multiple topics.