English Language Acquisition Evaluation Grants – 84.305P

The Institute of Education Sciences (IES) invites grant applications for evaluation studies on English language acquisition.  The purpose of the English Language Acquisition Evaluation projects is to implement rigorous evaluation studies, through randomized field trials, of alternative instructional approaches for early elementary students whose first language is Spanish that will result in improving their English proficiency and reading achievement.    

This competition will support the development and evaluation of two well-defined and distinctly different instructional approaches, a structured English immersion program and a transitional program, to determine the causal effects of the different approaches on students acquiring English proficiency, and to determine the effectiveness of each approach for which children and under what conditions.