Journal of the Mathematics Council of the Alberta Teachers’ Association
Volume 53 Issue 2, June 2015
18 – 24
ELL Students’ Set-Befores and Met-Befores in Mathematics
Tom Asquith
Recently, teachers and researchers alike have observed growing numbers of English language learning students (ELL) in American and Canadian classrooms (National Council of Teachers of Mathematics 2013). For example, Riel and Boudreau (20 I 2) found that 15 percent of all students in Canadian classrooms do not have English as their first language. In Alberta alone, 17 per cent of all schools responding have ELL students. Of those Alberta schools, 34 per cent have at least I to 5 students, 39 per cent have 6 to 25 students, and 26 per cent reported more than 25 ELL students (Alberta Education 2006a, 2006b).
