Strategies for Comprehensible Input: How the ELL Brain Learns

1. Strategies for Comprehensible Input: How the ELL Brain Learns

2. By the end of this afternoon. . . • Practical strategies for effective and consistent comprehensible Input (CI) • Opportunity to Practice strategy • Q and A

3. What is involved in Learning a Second Language?

4. Four separate Cerebral mechanisms

5. Implicit Linguistic competencereactionary language

6. Metalinguistic knowledge(Conscious language)

7. Pragmatics

8. Emotions

9. Implicit Linguistic Knowledge

10. Acquired incidentallyFocus attention on something else instead of the word.

11. Stored implicitly Learned unconsciously

12. Used automaticallyCannot be controlledReaction

14. Implicit linguistic knowledge • Acquired incidentally • Focus attention on something else instead of the word. • Stored implicitly • Learned unconsciously • Used automatically • Cannot be controlled • Reaction

15. What areas of the Brain process ILK? • Procedural Memory • Task specific • Relies on: • Cerebellum

16. Implications for Educators

17. Strategies that activate Implicit Linguistic Knowledge

18. Everything has a . . .

19. purpose

20. The Art of Effective Instruction (AEI) • One at a time • Question – Clarify –Question • Symmetry • Body Congruency- Verbal Italics • 4 step dance ( meaningful repetion)

21. 4 step Dance • In a moment ( 2 minutes, 5, etc) • When I say GO ( when music begins) • Task ( one at a time) • Question –Clarify-Question • Follow initial queue ( GO, music)

22. Strategies are only effective when . . . • Practiced • Personalized • Allowed implementation dip • Twiked

23. Its your turn >.>

24. Q and A

25. Thank you