Dual Language Learners Research Paper

Dual language learners are children who are learning two or more languages at once. However, at the same time, dual language learners may be trying to learn a second language while still developing their home or first language. Dual language learners may experience confusion, teachers, educators, and administrators are excellent sources to break the barrier for children who are experiencing such case. The extra support needed for dual language learner would be a speech/language therapist that can assist on sharping the language skills of children who are experiencing difficulty. Teacher also have to plan and implement strategies daily to support dual language learners. Several modification include the use of parallel talking while child is
performing an activity or action, use self-talk to describe action, providing visuals or concrete examples of lesson trying to be conveyed, using gestures while asking or explaining a task, providing initial explanation of key concepts in children’s home language, modeling language by describing what you see and connecting your words to the actual objects, encouraging children to help you describe their action or my by giving them “sentence stem” to complete, and repeat what they say, then extend it, modeling additional vocabulary. However, most importantly, teacher should always reflect on children’s performance and assure that children understand the activity or task being asked to do. Teacher and administrators should consider attending training regarding DDL and how to better support them in the classroom setting.