lep
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9.9
- noun
- /lɛp/
- Formal
:
persona con dominio limitado del inglés
- Teachers often modify their lessons to better support LEP students who struggle with English.
- LEP students
- limited English proficient (LEP)
- limited English proficiency (LEP)
Examples
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The rural elementary school was composed of 21% LEP students, and the rural high school included 15% LEP students.
Academic text (1999) -
The risk of dropout for LEP students is especially high in the fourth year.
Academic text (2011) -
Teachers also need to allow time for the LEP students to "make sense" of the information being presented.
Academic text (1996) -
Similarly, all the teachers worked with LEP students with mixed ability levels at least part of every day.
Academic text (1999) -
The teaching of social studies content poses many problems for teachers of LEP students.
Academic text (1996) -
The respondents were asked to identify personnel responsible for determining the placement of LEP students.
Academic text (1996) -
The most frequently used instrument for placement of LEP students was an ESL test.
Academic text (1996) -
Langston noted that history textbooks often present LEP students with more information than they can process.
Academic text (1996) -
The criteria for placing LEP students in ESL courses are reported in Table 3.
Academic text (1996) -
Kieffer found that children who entered kindergarten with LEP had divergent trajectories in achievement.
Academic text (2014)
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Surface Forms
Etymology
Lep began as the letters for the phrase Limited English Proficiency, which means 'limited skill in English', so it calls a person who has trouble reading, speaking, or understanding English.