Assessment Of English Language Learners Case Study
RUNNINGHEAD: ASSESSMENT 1.
Assessment and Placement of English Language Learners
Anita L. Lewis
ELL 240: Linguistically & Culturally Diverse Learners
Erin Marsano
April 20, 2015
ASSESSMENT 2.
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Assessment of English Language Learners
The English language is opaque, so a variety of assessment methods will likely produce more reliable data. Students will limited English may fail because they do not have access to effective bilingual or English as second language (ESL) instruction. Teacher must then do assessments on ELLs …show more content…
The purpose of annual standard-based assessment of English language proficiency is to provide both ESL and mainstream classroom teachers with accurate information about a student’s language proficiency levels. This will help teachers plan appropriate instruction that will help the student reach the next level of language acquisition (Syrja, 2011) A challenge of assessing would be moving a student to new level before they are ready.”
Not being aware of the scores for all domains for a particular student would greatly impede a teacher’s ability to plan appropriately differentiated lesson for English learners”(Syrja, 2011).
Another challenge of assessment is being uninformed about what level a student is in can lead to several inaccurate assumptions about the student.
Basic interpersonal communicative skills are the skills needed to interact in social situations.
BICS refers to face-to-face communication that is first learned by toddlers and preschoolers.
Cognitive academic language proficiency takes between five to seven years to develop (Syrja, …show more content…
An ELL student can seem to be successful in speaking on an interpersonal level but not know how to apply it on academic level. The problem is that most language teachers concentrate to much teaching BICS skills and do not concentrate enough on CALP skills. In the United States, many schools transition their English Learners out of bilingual programs before they have a chance to develop academic language proficiency (Freeman & Freeman, 2009).
A challenge I see is how teacher can help students improve better on academic language proficiency. Teachers can make sure that ELL students understand the format of words and different types of meanings to each word. Each ESL teachers will benefit from becoming aware that there is a difference between social and academic language. While students may sound fluent socially, it takes much longer and more guidance will be needed to become proficient in the academic vernacular of a new language (Williams, 2009). It will be good to use a communicative approach to learn a language, the same method used by newborn kids to learn the patterns of the surrounding languages and they pick it up. The teachers should try to change
Assessment and Placement of English Language Learners
Anita L. Lewis
ELL 240: Linguistically & Culturally Diverse Learners
Erin Marsano
April 20, 2015
ASSESSMENT 2.
.
Assessment of English Language Learners
The English language is opaque, so a variety of assessment methods will likely produce more reliable data. Students will limited English may fail because they do not have access to effective bilingual or English as second language (ESL) instruction. Teacher must then do assessments on ELLs …show more content…
The purpose of annual standard-based assessment of English language proficiency is to provide both ESL and mainstream classroom teachers with accurate information about a student’s language proficiency levels. This will help teachers plan appropriate instruction that will help the student reach the next level of language acquisition (Syrja, 2011) A challenge of assessing would be moving a student to new level before they are ready.”
Not being aware of the scores for all domains for a particular student would greatly impede a teacher’s ability to plan appropriately differentiated lesson for English learners”(Syrja, 2011).
Another challenge of assessment is being uninformed about what level a student is in can lead to several inaccurate assumptions about the student.
Basic interpersonal communicative skills are the skills needed to interact in social situations.
BICS refers to face-to-face communication that is first learned by toddlers and preschoolers.
Cognitive academic language proficiency takes between five to seven years to develop (Syrja, …show more content…
An ELL student can seem to be successful in speaking on an interpersonal level but not know how to apply it on academic level. The problem is that most language teachers concentrate to much teaching BICS skills and do not concentrate enough on CALP skills. In the United States, many schools transition their English Learners out of bilingual programs before they have a chance to develop academic language proficiency (Freeman & Freeman, 2009).
A challenge I see is how teacher can help students improve better on academic language proficiency. Teachers can make sure that ELL students understand the format of words and different types of meanings to each word. Each ESL teachers will benefit from becoming aware that there is a difference between social and academic language. While students may sound fluent socially, it takes much longer and more guidance will be needed to become proficient in the academic vernacular of a new language (Williams, 2009). It will be good to use a communicative approach to learn a language, the same method used by newborn kids to learn the patterns of the surrounding languages and they pick it up. The teachers should try to change