““Well, that’s comforting. A growing body of research suggests that SIOP may not be harmful to English learners and might even be helpful if teachers could only get it right. McIntyre et al. failed to consider another possibility: that these students might have learned more in a well-designed, alternative model of instruction. But SIOP has yet to face such fair competition in any of the studies conducted thus far. Indeed, it appears that none of the comparison students were provided with a clearly defined program for English learners or with teachers who were trained to implement one.””
![“sheltered classes are for intermediate [language learners], not beginners.” The reason should be obvious: “It is extremely difficult to teach subject matter to those who have acquired none or little of the language. Beginners should be in regular ESL, where they are assured of comprehensible…” quote by James Crawford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/e0e/james-crawford-19158_language-learners_sheltered-classes-are-for-intermediate-l_1560328.jpg)
