An Analytical Frame to Study Intersecting Ability and Language Differences: Notes for an Interdisciplinary Proleptic Vision
Multilingual learners (MLLs) have been underserved in U.S. schools due to siloed infrastructures, fragmented policies, and enduring deficit ideologies. Educational systems continue to frame MLLs’ learning difficulties in binary terms—language acquisition or disability—ignoring the complex sociocultural, historical, and...