Appropriate assessment of English language learnersLanguage acquisition has been a subject of great controversy for several decades. During this period, several approaches to English language acquisition were developed and implemented across the country. School districts across the country have implemented these approaches in their classrooms and trained their teachers in efforts to meet national, state, and local requirements set forth by educational reform such as No Child Left Behind (Abedi, 2004). A review of some of these approaches will certainly help us understand the strengths and weaknesses associated with each approach reviewed. A commonly used approach in structured language immersion is the total physical response or TPR approach. This approach uses spoken language which guides students in the use of modeling by giving oral instruction and guiding learners. All ELL stakeholders participate as a group, reducing the margin for error in response to the command. The controls are not complex but rather simple. This guided installation process...