students with different levels of English acquisition in each group. This allows the students to hear a broad range of language skills as they are being learned by others. The students t hat have already reached Basic Interpersonal Communication (BIC) is able to function well in this type of situation. In the given classroom‚ the students could be divided into six groups of five students. Each group should consist of at least 2 English speakers‚ 1 Emergent language learner‚ and a student with
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My Language Map Children need language awareness to open their horizons. Exposing children to a large variety of languages is extremely important because languages play a huge part in forming a person’s identity. Children may also encounter a range of languages in everyday life‚ so it would be beneficial for children to have some awareness of other languages in addition to understanding their own mother tongue. ‘The languages and experiences they brought to the classroom were genuinely valued
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English as an Additional Language (EAL) refers to pupils who speak another language at home and that this other language is their most prominent language‚ in other words their mother tongue is not English. Children with EAL should not be confused with children who are bi-lingual or children who grew up or spent time in another country but still had English as a first language. The educational system in the United Kingdom has always had to cope with the difficulties and challenges that arise in the
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Salient Features on Mother Tongue Based- Multi Lingual Education Language Development A strong educational foundation in the first language Successful bridging to one or more additional languages Enabling the use of both/ all languages for life- long learning Cognitive Development Is based in the child’s own known environment and bridges to the wider world. “Known to unknown” The buildup of higher order thinking skills that will: Transfer to the other languages once Filipino or English has
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INDEX Assignment Instructions ………………………………………………………….… 3 Essay …………………………………………………………………………............5 Bibliography………………………………………………………………………….12 In the world of English teaching‚ each new approach that arises is considered innovative and offers new solutions to the problems its predecessor could not solve. Nowadays‚ the Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) is the most common approach used in the world; however‚ there are certain aspects
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Week 7 Assignment 2: Instructional Content and Implications Vivian Matthews Dr. Calvin Moore EDU512001VA016-1136-001 Diversity in K-12 Education August 18‚ 2013 Instructional Content and Implications There is an atmosphere of diversification and multiculturalism. The trend is to satisfy the diversity thirsts of the system. The thrust is not to satisfy the crowds‚ but noted as a mandate that became a “must” to satisfy the standards-core curriculum. Diversity not only encompassed gender
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Assessing the English Language Learner (ELL) The Growth of ELL (ESL) The number of human beings who speak a language other than English continues to increase in the United States‚ Canada‚ and Australia‚ for example‚ as the number of immigrants grows. In 2006‚ 34.70% of the population of Los Angeles‚ California‚ was foreign born; 25.50% of Miami‚ Florida; 39.60% of Vancouver‚ British Columbia; 45.70% of Toronto‚ Ontario; 28.90% of Melbourne‚ Australia; and 31.70% of Sydney‚ Australia (Statistics
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examined by means of overt performance of two or more people in the process of communication. James Cummins (1980) CALP Cognitive/Academic Language Proficiency Context Reduced * Surface features of language * Focus on form * Used for classroom exercises * Communicative capacity of language * Focus on meaning * Used for daily interpersonal exchanges BICS Context Embedded Basic Interpersonal Communicative Skills Canale & Swain Grammatical Competence * Lexical
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SECTION A: Question 1: Theoretical background a) Describe the following concepts and give examples: i) Prejudice Prejudice is a pre-held negative opinion‚ perception‚ or judgment a person holds or expresses against something or someone‚ without justification or analysing facts. For example‚ mostly in America when one sees someone dressed as a Muslim on a flight‚ one automatically assumes that he or she is a terrorist‚ and is suspicious or unreasonably “sure” that the Muslim person intends blowing
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CHAPTER I THE PROBLEM AND ITS BACKGROUND This chapter presents the problem of the researchers sought after the foundation for which to base the study. Introduction "Language is not everything in education‚ but without language‚ everything is nothing in education." (Wolff‚ 2006). The foundation of every state is the education of its youth. The failure of education represents the inability of society to properly perpetuate itself through succeeding generations. Many years ago Filipinos dwell
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