English learners
For the students who arrived last week
A newcomer shouldn't have to learn English before they can start learning English. Mango teaches each course in the student's own first language, so they can begin on day one and keep pace with their classmates while they catch up.
Taught in the language they already read
Every Mango English course is presented in the learner's first language: the interface, the instructions, and the translations. A Spanish-speaking newcomer works through English in Spanish; an Arabic-speaking newcomer works through it in Arabic. That's especially useful in classrooms where the teacher doesn't share the student's language, which is most of them.
Where a district adds live instruction through Mango Live, the English-learner content used in those sessions is aligned to WIDA.
What teachers get
Built for an EL classroom
Voice Comparison
Students practice English against a native speaker as many times as they want, and hear the difference. No audience, no pressure.
101 lesson plans
The Guide to Best Practices covers social-emotional learning, classroom discussion, and critical thinking. Each plan is tagged with a Bloom's tier and DoK level, with adaptations by proficiency.
Family profiles
Five additional profiles per student, so parents can build their own English alongside their child and feel less at sea in a new community.
Offline lessons
The app is free and lessons pre-download, which matters for the students who don't have internet at home.
Progress you can report on
Upload class lists, track engagement, and review automatically graded assessments to see who's actually moving.
World languages on the same platform
The same subscription that serves your EL students serves your world language classrooms: one rollout, one vendor, one login.
See the K-12 platformMethodology
Why a low-stakes environment matters here most
Mango is built on Krashen's Affective Filter Hypothesis: anxiety is a barrier to producing language, and newcomers carry more of it than anyone. Every one of these follows from designing for a student who can get it wrong privately, as often as they need to, before getting it right out loud.
Comprehensible input, a step beyond
Material sits just past where the learner currently is rather than well past it. For a newcomer that distinction is the difference between a lesson that builds and one that confirms they are behind.
The research behind itConversation-first, not vocabulary drills
Chapters open on a real exchange between native speakers and work outward from it, so a student is assembling something they could say today instead of a word list they would have to turn into a sentence later.
Pronunciation practice nobody overhears
Voice comparison against a native speaker happens in headphones, at whatever hour and however many attempts the student wants. The classmates who make a newcomer self-conscious are not in the room for it.
Customer stories
Districts doing this now
Clarion-Goldfield-Dows School District
Clarion, Iowa
A district whose English learner population tripled found a way to give newcomers a running start.
Hudson County Schools of Technology
Hudson County, New Jersey
Italian instruction moved off the textbook and onto a platform students could use from home.
Next steps
Rolling it out
Funding
Title III is the obvious route for EL programs, but Title I and AEFLA both apply too. Here's how Mango qualifies under each.
See funding optionsTeacher resources
The guides, workbooks, and reporting that come with Mango Classroom.
Browse resourcesStandards
How Mango maps to your state's standards and to the ACTFL and CEFR frameworks.
See alignmentTalk to us about your EL program
Tell us how many newcomers you're supporting and which first languages they speak, and we'll show you what a rollout looks like.