A book for educators on teaching ELLs through technology is desperately needed. Although there are many excellent generic ELL books, they are often more appropriate for ESOL teachers than for content-area teachers who have ELLs in their classrooms and want to use technology. This book (part of the Teaching English Language Learners Across the Curriculum series) provides content-area teachers with practical, teacher-friendly strategies and techniques for using various technologies and software programs readily available to the public which can enhance the learning potential not only of ELLs, but of all students.

Research results over the past decades have consistently demonstrated that a key reason why many second language learners fail--while some learners do better with less effort--lies in various learner attributes such as personality traits, motivation, or language aptitude. In psychology, these attributes have traditionally been called "individual differences." The scope of individual learner differences is broad--ranging from creativity to learner styles and anxiety--yet there is no current, comprehensive, and unified volume that provides an overview of the considerable amount of research conducted on various language learner differences, until now.