ELL Assessments Crystalanne Duncan-Holmes Grand Canyon University: ESL-223N 3 November 2012 Whitney Johnson The following essay will briefly discuss the procedures that are being utilized in order to identify ELLs at the Philadelphia public school District. Included in this discussion will be what informal and formal assessments are being conducted to determine ELL student’s language proficiency and how English language development is monitored over time. How Educators are informed of
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Assessments ELL Krystine M. Ngo Grand Canyon University ESL-223N SEI English Language Teaching: Foundations & Methodologies September 22‚ 2011 ELL Assessments Assessment is a valuable tool to measure students learning and achievement. It is an essential element for teacher to reflect on what and how they teach. To assess students is to collect evidence of their learning. Teachers use the information to modify their lesson plans and adjust their instructional methods; students need feedback
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going back to teach English to English Language Learners (ELL) at Kaleidoscope Academy. For a semester‚ I worked mostly with seventh and eighth graders with English Proficiency Levels ( ELP) between three and five. The ELPs tell that these students have great social English communication skills‚ but their academic language is not proficient yet; that is why many of them still need ELL instruction. My goal for this year was to increase my ELL students vocabulary so they can be better readers and writers
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ELL ASSESSMENTS Nohemy Tautimer 08/02/2013 EDU-213N Grand Canyon University Professor Lorena Brown With the rise in immigrant students comes a rise in students who do not speak English. Schools are facing the need to not only teach these students their regular academics but also a new language. In Guthrie‚ Oklahoma‚ there may seem like there would not be as much need for such programs but the fact is that English language learners are also here. ELL students need assistance from the schools
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This presentation was informative about ELL’s in Florida. First‚ I learned about our district’s demographics. Florida is “ranked 3rd in ELL population.” Most of the ELL students speak Spanish and come from low economic backgrounds. During the presentation‚ the presenters were informed about the area and connected the information to our lives. Next‚ I learned the reason why people move to the United States. For example‚ for better careers‚ to escape war‚ to escape the government‚ and over all they
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Supreme Green ESL-223N June 10‚2014 Lisa De Bow ELL Placement Assessment Students that are considered to be ELL students have specific tests and procedures that must be followed by schools and teachers in order to properly assess each student proficiency level in English language. After interviewing the ELL coordinator for our school‚ assessing the ELL student gives both the home and school environment the information needed to
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For me‚ this course has helped me understand my ELL students and ESOL experiences I’ve had in the past. It has helped my validate many of the decisions I made in an effort to help my students. It also gave me a better understanding of student behavior and challenges. I feel that if I had taken this course prior to my work teaching overseas‚ I would have recognized earlier some of the difficulties my students were experiencing. Because I had to learn through experience‚ I needed more time to recognize
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My Experience Taking ESL 33A Everyone has a different experience in their life. My experience to take ESL 33A at Pasadena City College is unforgettable because I learned so many knowledge and grammar from this class. During taking ESL 33A‚ I will never forget this experience. I remember once when taking a in class essay‚ I felt I did well on it because I used my ways to write about this essay‚ and I did not use the skills I learned from this class. Therefore‚ I expected to get
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Namrata Savaliya “ESL Students” "Anxiety is a basic human emotion consisting of fear and uncertainty" (Sarason‚ 1988). Anxiety has its good and bad sides. On the one hand it helps avoid dangerous events that can be life threatening. On the other hand it causes people to freeze as they avoid non-dangerous situations. The mind cannot distinguish between what is life threatening or just a stressful situation. "One such event [that causes minds to freeze but is not dangerous] is testing" (Harris
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Students be given special treatment in mainstream classrooms? ❝If you talk to a man in a language he understands‚ that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his own language‚ that goes to his heart‚” (Nelson Mandela). English as a Second Language (ESL) students are growing in population as Canada and other English speaking countries become more diverse with citizens that have different native languages. English is an influential language which is taught world wide for different reasons. English as
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