English Language Learners' Educational Resilience and Classroom Learning Environment.

LANGUAGE & languages; LIMITED English-proficient students; PSYCHOLOGICAL resilience; CLASSROOMS; SOCIOECONOMIC factors; STUDENTS; OBSERVATION (Educational method); COMPARATIVE studies

Resilience is an area of research that has important implications for the educational improvement of English language Learners (ELLs) because it focuses on ELLs who are succèsful in school despite the presence of adverse conditions such as living in economically- and sociallydisadvantaged circumstances. This study compared the classroom and instructional learning environment of 189 fourth- and fifth-grade resilient, average and nonresilient ELLs. Resilient and average students perceived significantly (p < .05) more competition in the classroom than nonresilient students, while nonresilient students and average students perceived their reading classes to be significantly (p < .05) more difficult than resilient students. The classroom observation results revealed that resilient and average students were on task significantly (p < .001) more than nonresilient students [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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