American Business English/ESL: The Fundamentals More and more students who do not speak English are enrolling in schools in Tennessee. Metro Schools also has seen the largest increase; more than 6,000 children are enrolled this year. “We represent over 80 countries and over 150 different languages spoken,” said Lawanna Shelton, director of Metro’s English Language Learners program.In the program, students are tested. They also follow the same curriculum as their peers for math, science, and social studies. Every Metro school has some form of the ELL program. Administrators believe the students benefit from what they learn in those classrooms. For a number of years, the state has supported some form of “English as a second language” as part of the federal No Child Left Behind Act.

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