How Monolingual Educators Can Support Emergent Multilingual Learners

Emergent Multilingual Learners (EMLs) are students who continue developing their home language while learning an additional language.

This course explores effective, inclusive ways all educators—not only language specialists—can support multilingual learners in today’s classrooms.

Participants will examine mindsets and research-based strategies that strengthen relationships with EMLs, support newcomers, and honor students’ linguistic and cultural assets.

The course also highlights practical approaches for leveraging a student’s first language—even when educators do not speak that language themselves.

Key topics include instructional scaffolds that promote academic growth, the use of WIDA Can Do Descriptors, and strategies for building meaningful partnerships with parents and caregivers of multilingual learners.

Educators will also explore lesson-planning practices that support reading, writing, speaking, and listening development across content areas.

Learning Outcomes

By the end of this course, participants will be able to:

  • Create inclusive opportunities for newcomers to connect with peers.


  • Build strong, supportive relationships with multilingual learners.


  • Adapt curriculum and instruction to support academic growth for EMLs.


  • Utilize WIDA resources to support multilingual learners.


  • Apply Can Do Descriptors to assess language development in reading, writing, speaking, and listening.


  • Plan instruction based on what students can do, rather than perceived limitations.


  • Celebrate the linguistic and cultural strengths multilingual learners bring to the classroom.


  • Implement best practices for welcoming and partnering with caregivers and families.

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