Has anyone else heard talk of renaming ESL students as something more asset/growth-oriented such as English for Multilanguage Learners?

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In NY, we refer to our students as ENL or ELLs.
While at an annual PD, we heard talk of changing the acronym to MLLs.

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I've heard a lot of people are starting to use Emerging Bilinguals.

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We have used emergent bilinguals.

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I haven’t-but love that outlook and idea!

interesting !!!

Our program is just EL dropped the S a few years ago

Our school is promoting ‘MLs’ for Multilingual Learners

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