culturally responsive teaching may enhance the educational outcome (Gollnick and Chin‚ 2005). Five pieces of information most valuable to my future teaching are: 1. Know the specific family In contrast to much of the mainsteam of America‚ as ESL professionals‚ teachers are trained to promote acculturation‚ not assimilation. Although teachers advocate for ESL students and their parents
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Methods of Phonological Analysis. The Main Trends in the Phoneme Theory It is generally acknowledged that the phoneme is one of the basic language units. However‚ it is described by different scholars and representatives of different linguistic schools in different ways. Before we look at the most significant theories‚ lets say a quick word on the history of phonological studies and mention the names of outstanding scholars who contributed to the understanding of this complicated language phenomenon
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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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The setting of the ELL instructor interview was inside Mrs. Trimble’s kindergarten classroom after her class had been dismissed. This was a one-on-one interview. Mrs. Trimble was very helpful‚ informative‚ and answered questions to the best of her ability. “Narrowing the achievement gap between students who are native English speakers and those learning English as a second language is one of the biggest challenges facing U.S. educators” (Pardini‚ P.‚ 2006‚ p. 20). In this essay the discussion
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New Era University College of Education Awareness of the students about the History of English Language: A Survey towards improvement Mary Joyce R. Olaguer BSEd- English 3rd year English19-05(Remedial Teaching) MWF 3:00-6:00 pm Dr. Vivian Buhain Professor INTRODUCTION The English language has its origins in about the fifth century A.D.‚ when tribes from the continent‚ the Jutes‚ the Saxons‚ and then the larger tribe of Angles invaded
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English Language 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
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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 during the past century in our nation’s history. In 1968‚ with the passage of the Bilingual Education Act (Title VII of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act) legislation was adopted to support programs for educating language-minority students. For the first
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CHAPTER I THE PROBLEM AND ITS BACKGROUND Introduction Teaching strategies are the methods you use to allow learners to access the information you are teaching. For example‚ you could read the information to them; you could display it pictorially; you could allow them to research the information themselves; you could present it as a Powerpoint Presentation. People learn in 3 main ways - visually‚ auditory and kinesthetically. Visual learners learn by looking at/seeing something. Auditory learners
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Phonological Awareness Phonological awareness is the ability hears and manipulates the sound structure of language. This is an encompassing term that involves working with sounds of languages at the word‚ syllable‚ and phoneme level. Phonemic awareness is the ability to hear and manipulate the sound in spoken words‚ and the understanding that the spoken word and syllables are made up of sequences of speech sounds ( Yopp‚ 1992) Phonological Awareness is the understanding that spoken language
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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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