9. Trace the course of language acquisition from the babbling stage through the two-word stage.…
The video shows the actual performance of students at the five stages of oral English Language Acquisition. The stage one enactment of the Silent Period (can last 0 to 6 months (Syrja (2011 p. 35)) shows two male students. One student with proficiency answering the teacher’s questions about the other student and the other student is silent. The stage two Early Production Stage (can last six months to 1 year Syrja (2011p. 35))) enactment shows a girl student talking quietly with one or two word phases answering questions. The stage three enactment Speech Emergence (can last 1 to 3 years Syrja (2011 p.35)) shows a girl thinking out her questions and answers. She sentences has errors but she is doing a good performance. The stage four enactment Intermediate Language Proficiency (takes up to 3 to 5 years Syrja (2011 p. 35)) with a girl talking about her friends and what class she likes at school. The girl is making strong statements and long sentences and thinking about her answers. The stage five enactment Advanced Fluency Stage (Syrja (2011p. 36)) shows an adult man who is in the grade level classroom talking with fluency and discussing his additional support how he learned English for example watching television and having friends help him out to learn and having the vocabulary and a native speaker . These five stages enactments on Language Development depicts the language acquisition that is required to become a successful English Language Learner…
Topic: Practical applications of math equations through the use of school lunch in the cafeteria.…
8. Why is it important to have exposure to other languages? 9. Describe the four stages of language development after the babbling stage? 10.…
Most agree that all students need to learn the English language and be provided full access to the English curriculum so that they can be academically successful. In order to be academically successful, students must also understand English instruction and by not receiving this instruction in their native language, frustration occurs. How can students learn if they do not understand the language? An issue with state initiatives and laws is that students do not receive instruction in their native language and that is a problem. Olsen (2010) maintains that English Language Learners will require a minimum of seven years to develop proficiency in English. This is met with much opposition as students are required to receive English assessments at various times to test…
Language Developmental Milestones Language development includes the ability to understand -- receptive language skills -- and to vocalize -- expressive language skills. Language development begins from birth, with the infant listening to the sound of voices around her and communicating her…
WRiTE BRAiN BOOKS and our uniquely engaging program are excellent developmental tools for English Language Learners. The number of English Language Learners in classrooms across the United States continues to grow, and we at WRiTE BRAiN are committed to giving each ELL student opportunities, not simply to acclimate and adapt, but to thrive. When WRiTE BRAiN BOOKS launched in 2014, we piloted our creative writing program in a California school district where ELLs were the majority of the student population, many from homes where no English was not spoken. WRiTE BRAiN was a great success—kids became published authors and were amazed at what they accomplished. Their parents and community were…
In this paper we will explain the theory behind English language learners, and give the benefits…
more reliable data. Students will limited English may fail because they do not have access to…
Arlington is a district which includes students from more than 114 countries, and 99 different languages are spoken in homes. English Language Learners [ELLs] comprise 19% of Arlington Public School [APS] students (APS, ELL Students, 2014). These students enter APS with ranges of knowledge. Their language proficiency levels range from WIDA Level 1 “Entering” to Level 6 “Reaching" (Fig. 1). About one-fourth of the students are at WIDA Level 1, and about three-fourths of the ESOL/HILT/HILTEX students are at WIDA Levels 2 to 5 “Beginning, Developing, Expanding & Bridging” (APS, English Language Proficiency Levels, 2010).…
North Boone School District is located in rural Boone County, Illinois. The district serves approximately 1,700 students. North Boone is a medium district with six schools in the district. There are three K-4 schools, one 5-6 school, one 7-8 school, and one high school. I teach eighth grade mathematics at North Boone Middle School where 6.1% of students are English Language Learners (ELLs) (Illinois Interactive Report Card, n.d.). Our district has one certified bilingual teacher that travels between buildings, and one native language speaking aide at each building.…
There are stages in language development and each stage marks a remarkable development milestones. The following are the stages in language acquisition that has been investigated:…
It is thought that if the language is not taught and maintained on a daily basis, the skill will not be maintained well enough to achieve fluency or even retain enough of the language to make the foreign language class worthwhile. It has been found that the prime years for language learning and retention are between zero and three years old, as Patricia Kuhl found when she worked on a study involving a group of children learning english in Madrid. It was found that by being exposed to english for an hour each day, the children in this specialized track Kuhl observed learned English much faster than the children in the normal Madrid language program. (Bach 1) This study showed that the first year of development is in fact extremely important to learning a second language, as once the one year marker is passed the child will start to have a more complex grasp of their mother language.…
Finally the last author is Freeman (2004) who in two chapters explains the acquisition of the language in different forms. Chapter 1 refers to the first language acquisition and how a baby starts babbling and then he can be able to develop a huge number of words and sentences. Freeman also refers in how different fields such as psychology, sociology, linguistics, affect the learner in the acquisition of the language. The second chapter refers to written and second language acquisition using different goals and…
“Is it possible to reconcile these two seemingly opposite views as to what constitutes second language acquisition or ‘learning’, as Swain puts it? Or do the two views represent two extremes of both theory and practice?”…