“There’s no question that developing English conversational skills is critical for our ELL students. However, for our Beginning Students who are being parachuted into predominantly English proficient content classes, being able to use increasingly sophisticated simultaneous translation tools so they can understand what their teachers and classmates are saying will be even more important now as schools are closing down Newcomers classes because of reduced numbers. Yes, in an ideal world, content teachers will work hard at making their content more accessible because that helps everybody, but some won’t. In addition, these translation tools make teacher/parent/guardian conversations more accessible. For critical ones, schools still need to hire interpreters. But for most run-of-the-mill talks, these tools work great. Today, Google unveiled a huge upgrade to their Live Translate feature, including on their Google Translate app. And it can be used for phone conversations, too! I’m adding this info to THE BEST RESOURCES TO HELP ELL STUDENTS WITH SIMULTANEOUS TRANSLATION IN THE CLASSROOM .
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