SOLO Taxonomy and English Language Learners: Making second language learning visible - Paperbackby Pam Hook (Author), Sonya Van Schaijik (Author) Many classroom teachers will tell you that immersing English language learners in a student centred English medium classroom, with its everyday richness and opportunities for collaboration, develops their conversational fluency within a year. Although this outcome is gratifying, conversational fluency can mask the lack of academic language proficiency that is vital to future achievement and academic