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From https://ellstudents.com

In this two-part series, Janna X. Heiligenstein describes long-term English learners, defined as "students who have been in U.S. schools for six or more years, who have not made significant progress in English and who lag behind in their peers academically," and suggests a new approach to providing services that involves focusing resources on students at intermediate levels of proficiency.

For an overview of who long-term English learners are and the complexity of the issue, read Part 1: https://ellstudents.com/blogs/the-confianza-way/long-term-els-part-i-understanding-the-issue

Heiligenstein suggests a novel approach to program design that can reduce the number of long-term English learners in Part 2: https://ellstudents.com/blogs/the-confianza-way/long-term-els-part-2-challenging-the-status-quo-systematic-and-instructional-changes-needed-to-prevent-long-term-els