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Effective Teaching Strategies for English Language Learners

Effective Teaching Strategies for English Language Learners. Three Different Perspectives by Jennifer Wheeler. Teachers Perspectives. Gestures and visual cues Repetition and opportunities for practicing skills and using new language often Use of objects, real props, and hands-on materials

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Effective Teaching Strategies for English Language Learners

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  1. Effective Teaching Strategies for English Language Learners Three Different Perspectives by Jennifer Wheeler

  2. Teachers Perspectives • Gestures and visual cues • Repetition and opportunities for practicing skills and using new language often • Use of objects, real props, and hands-on materials • Multi-sensory approaches

  3. Most Important Instructional Strategies Direct teaching and learning of vocabulary through listening, seeing, reading, and writing in short time segments Specific informal assessments based on curriculum (Curriculum-Based Probe) Fluency building (high frequency words) Tactile vocabulary development steps Combining kinesthetic and phonemic awareness Least Important Instructional Strategies Using a book on tape as support Acting out a story Oral sharing and discussion on a topic related to the reading Predicting what is going to happen in the story based on the title, headline, illustration, or initial sentence or paragraph Visualization of a story or drawing a scene of a story Students Perspectives

  4. International Perspectives • Demonstration • Choral Drill • Look and Say • Pictorial and Verbal Illustration • Association • Questioning • Narration or Storytelling • Read and Say

  5. Bibliography • Facella, M.A., Rampino, K.M., & Shea, E.K. (2005). Effective Teaching Strategies for English Language Learners. Bilingual Research Journal, 29 (1), 209-221. • Shyyan, V., Thurlow, M., & Liu, K. (2005). Student Perceptions of Instructional Strategies: Voices of English Language Learners with Disabilities (ELLs with Disabilities Report 11). Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota, National Center on Educational Outcomes. • Piller, B., & Skillings, M. J. (2005, December). English Language Teaching Strategies Used by Primary Teachers in One New Delhi, India School [Electronic version]. TESL-EJ, 9 (3), 1-23. Retrieved April 13, 2009, from http://tesl-ej.org/ej35/cf.pdf

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