benefits of ELL supports in our schools is the opportunity they offer by helping these students to get immersed in the North American culture and learn to navigate such by themselves through differentiated instruction. We have to take into consideration that some of these students do not understand (much less interpret!) what is going on around them. ELL school supports are extremely necessary as they may be the only ones from mainstream education trying to instruct these students the proper way
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The Influence of Age Factors on Second Language Acquisition Xu Bailin Abstract: In second language acquisition‚ age factors has always been the study focus and one of the most controversial issues of linguistics. Based on the Brain Plasticity Theory and the Critical Period Hypothesis‚ the purpose is to prove such a hypothesis that the younger the leaner who begins to learn an second language‚the greater the probability that he or she will achieve a native-like command of it
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One of the U.S. educational challenges of today is meeting the educational needs of the English language learners. This growing diverse population of English learners has to simultaneously learn to build their English language proficiency and the content area within their grade level standard. This makes it a double challenge for them and their teachers. After observing a lesson based on a video simulation of a classroom‚ I will discuss five components: comprehensible input‚ ongoing specific and
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ELL Classroom Observation The main purpose of this paper is to observe and evaluate an ELL lesson using the SIOP (The Sheltered Instruction Observation Protocol) checklist ("Lesson Plan Checklist For The Sheltered Instruction Observation Protocol (SIOP)"). The emphasis of this observation will be on Lesson Preparation‚ Building Background‚ and Comprehensible Input. Using literature as an English learning tool is the lesson that we will be assessing in the paper. The Lesson The use of literature
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MODULE FIVE: INSTRUCTIONAL STRATEGIES FOR ELL CLASSROOMS Instructional Strategies for ELL Classrooms Angelica L. Tarver Grand Canyon University ESL – 223N SEI English Language Teaching: Foundations & Methodologies October 10‚ 2010 Abstract This paper takes a close look at various instructional strategies for teaching English Language Learners (ELL). It explores many methods and techniques utilized by ELL teachers; specific strategies include sheltered instruction‚ scaffolding
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SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION COLLABORATIVE SUMMARY a) What is the comic strip about? With respect to what the comic is about‚ we have concluded that the man in the cartoon seems to be a foreigner who travels to another country and comes across local people who say some words and make a particular gesture in a nice manner. The man then makes use of his situational schematic knowledge (De Vega‚ 1995) to interpret the gesture and the linguistic input he receives. By constructing meaning
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PCM105 REMEDIAL ENGLISH ROLE OF STUDYING ENGLISH LITERATURE IN LANGUAGE ACQUISITION TABLE OF CONTENTS PARTICIPANTS 2 TABLE OF CONTENTS 3 ACKNOWLEDGEMENT 6 ABSTRACT 7 What is Literature? 8 Elements of Literature 9 Drama 10 Novels 11 Short Stories 11 Biographies and Autobiographies 11 Diaries 12 Journals‚ Magazines and Newspapers 12 Prose 13 Poetry 14 Purpose of Literature 14 Criticism 15 Importance of Literature 15 Literature provides pleasure to listeners
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Assumptions behind Singapore’s language-in-education policy: implications for language planning and second language acquisition L. Quentin Dixon Received: 30 September 2007 / Accepted: 14 January 2009 / Published online: 27 February 2009 Ó Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2009 Abstract Singapore’s officially bilingual education policy‚ in which the majority of children are schooled through a non-native medium with their ‘Mother Tongue’ (an ethnic heritage language that is not necessarily
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Over the last century educators throughout America have asserted that speaking two languages put children at a disadvantage for successfully integrating into life in the USA. Recent research tells us that this is not so‚ and that culturally responsive teaching may enhance the educational outcome (Gollnick and Chin‚ 2005). Five pieces of information most valuable to my future teaching are:
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English Language Learners Jennifer Milam Grand Canyon University: ESL-523N January 30‚ 2013 State Voter Initiatives Affecting the Education of English Language Learners It is no secret that the debate over what is the best course of action to educate our non-native English language students across the country is a highly charged topic that runs from the classroom to Capitol Hill. There have been many shifts in direction and focus of educational programs for English Language Learning (ELL) students
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