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The ability to navigate daily nuances of living and complex situations like legal and financial obligations relies a student’s ability to build proficient skills in applying the English language. If ELL students had a better understanding how to use the technology like social media to amplify their message and better connect them to their community, it address risk factors that face communities of English Language Learners.

One risk factors for English Language Learners is access to resources, specifically technology. In order to decrease the risks associated with lack of access is the introduction of entrepreneurial education. By thinking entrepreneurially, students are tasked to address obstacles and needs within their communities by using what they know, who they know, and what they have. English Language Learners navigate challenges by applying existing knowledge and experience as a tool for addressing challenges and engages the greater community by accessing resources in the community that will cultivate the experience needed to build vocabulary and applicable use of the English language. As entrepreneurial thinkers, students will need to use social media as a tools like Facebook and the translation tools on the platform to amplify their message and have greater access to their community and a way to apply their language skills.

To think entrepreneurially empowers to navigate their language skills in a number of ways:

1. It requires students to apply what they know

Students feel more confident when they can use their comfort zones as a strength. If a challenging concept were applied to a familiar experience, students are able to relate more easily to the concept and build the vocabulary needed to continue in that experience

2. Students access the resources they have

Mobility is an outcome when students feel like they can identify and access the tools that they need. They build a competency in personal finance, communication, planning through application of the lexicon.

3. Use social media to enhance proficiency in the use of technology and the use of English language in technology

Translation tools make it possible for students from different communities and language abilities to communicate and break down barriers to access. Students are able to identify their passions and communicate needs to research and access resources.

Entrepreneurial thinking makes topics applicable to learners because they must activate and apply their experience to addressing personal and community needs and challenges. Technology becomes the amplifier of language skills as students use this resource to make sustainable changes that add value to their personal lives and the lives of those around them.

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