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Parental involvement ideas and barriers are briefly mentioned in context with 200 words of notes and reference reviews. Opinions about parents of ESL/ELL students are integrated.

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What are the transcending barriers?

Language exhibits a major barrier to ELL parent-school collaboration. Many ELL parents often feel alienation, misunderstood, or intimidated their lack of native English skills. Since most school staff are limited by their inability to speak effectively and regularly with the ELL parents, this two-way language barrier often prevents and hinders all forms of oral and written communications between school and home, as one source concurs:

Xiang, L. (2015). Book review: L Ferlazzo and KH Sypnieski, The ESL/ELL ...

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