Two graduate students from Taiwan make an appointment to talk with their son's second grade teacher about his struggles with learning English. The parents want to know what they can do at home to help their son. What advice would be consistent with the research on supporting ELLs?
a. "Just concentrate on getting his homework done; both of you are intelligent so he will pick up English easily."
b. "Read and discuss books in both languages and use both languages to talk about everyday activities. I can suggest some online resources also."
c. "I'm sorry, but we don't have a bilingual program in this rural community."
d. "He will just have to learn English on his own. There is no way I can be expected to help with Chinese."
B
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