By Sarah B. Ottow Originally published, Spring 2021, at: https://learningforward.org/2021/04/29/what-english-learners-need-now/, updated slightly to reflect past tense Almost 1 in 10 students in the U.S. is identified as an English learner, also known as a multilingual learner (MLL) or emergent bilingual. Multilingual learners are extremely diverse, speaking more than 400 languages, learning two or several languages, […]