id	author	title	date	pages	extension	mime	words	sentence	flesch	summary	cache	txt
epaa-7970	Gu, Dai; Kim, Sujin	Critical discourse analysis of the terminology and definitions of multilingual learners across U.S. policies vs. the WIDA ELD standards	2025	22	.pdf	application/pdf	11151	493	36	As shown in Table 1, 33 states used their own terms and definitions, while the rest of the states adopted the federally-defined terms (English learners or English language learners), found in the Department of Education’s EL guidebooks. English language learners (ELLs) and limited English proficient students/pupils (LEPs) are commonly used by 45 states.	cache/epaa-7970.pdf	txt/epaa-7970.txt