Learners & Education: How to Create Success in the Classroom DeCapua‚ A.‚ & Marshall‚ H. (2010). Students with limited or interrupted formal education in US classrooms. Urban Review‚ 42‚ 159-173. This article addresses the challenges of learning in the US for a particular English Language Learner (ELL) group known as SLIFE (students with limited or interrupted formal education)‚ who share the characteristics of having little to no English language proficiency‚ native language literacy‚ and
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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 immediate
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Instructional Strategies for ELL Classrooms Grand Canyon University SPE-523N English Language Teaching Foundations and Methods November 17‚ 2010 There are many different strategies that an instructor can use in ELL classrooms or in classrooms in which ELL students have been mainstreamed. As always‚ instructors are called upon to constantly modify their curriculum and instruction in order to meet the needs of each individual learner. This is made more possible if the instructor has more knowledge
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One of the 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
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Based on the fact that 20.6% of the district population are in the ELL program‚ an instructional strategy I would use in the classroom is using small groups and model desired skills and outcomes. ELL students need a lot of modeling and visual aids when it comes to instruction‚ without that‚ and just using lectures will have the students confused and lost and not understand the information they are receiving‚ but if the teacher is modeling what is expected of them‚ especially if they are active during
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Introduction What is reading? Reading is an essential skill for English as a second or foreign language (ESL/EFL) to understand written texts. It involves both perception and thought. Reading consists of two related processes: word recognition and comprehension. Word recognition is the process of perceiving how written symbols correspond to the spoken language. Comprehension is the process of understanding the words‚ sentences and connected texts. Readers typically make use of background knowledge
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Punctuation is the system of symbols (. ‚ ! - : etc) that we use to separate sentences and parts of sentences‚ and to make their meaning clear. Each symbol is called a "punctuation mark". Learning how to use punctuation marks appropriately and correctly in a sentence is very important. Every punctuation mark has different usage in a sentence. A simple misplace of a comma or an apostrophe can make the sentence grammatically incorrect. Sometimes one sentence would have two different thoughts or meaning
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have been contemplating the application of ELL strategies in the area of high school‚ particularly in regards to the College and Career Readiness Standards. Mostly we have been focusing on Head start‚ pre-school‚ kindergarten‚ and elementary ELL students. However‚ if these student do not reach proficiency by fifth or sixth grade then many fall behind and possibly drop out because the English language transfers from a social English to a more academic level of English. For a portion of my field practicum
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The issues of ELL assessment that I am most interested in relate to understanding the right mix of formal testing and other assessment methods to best understand both initial placement and progress toward language proficiency. It seems like the mix will be different depending on the specific context and certainly should allow for some creative assessment alternatives. I am most interested in teaching adults and I believe that assessments for adults might be significantly different than those
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ELL Placement Assessments Today receiving an education is especially for teachers who understand the importance of receiving an education along with parents they set expectations so that our students can aim high and accomplish their life goals in spite of what is going on in todays society. Therefore it is important and crucial that every child is prepared properly and successfully in every academic area by the time they enter high school. After asking a view questions concerning our ELL students
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