Across California and the United States, it is evident that our Emergent Bilinguals continue to suffer and the achievement gap between their monolingual peers still exists. Emergent bilinguals are also the fastest growing population in the United Stat . . .

Abstract This qualitative study was conducted with five Mexican American English language learners with varying degrees of English language acquisition. The study took place in Lake Elsinore, California. When the researcher began the process of answer . . .