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Language, Diversity, and Culture

Language, Diversity, and Culture. ( Alvermann , Phelps, & Ridgeway) Content Area Reading and Literacy. Language as a Vehicle for Teaching and Learning Content. Discourse: an identity kit that governs ways of speaking, thinking, and behaving in the world (James Gee)

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Language, Diversity, and Culture

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  1. Language, Diversity, and Culture (Alvermann, Phelps, & Ridgeway) Content Area Reading and Literacy

  2. Language as a Vehicle for Teaching and Learning Content • Discourse: an identity kit that governs ways of speaking, thinking, and behaving in the world (James Gee) • Moving from one Discourse to another = change • Watching a basketball game, attending a concert, being with friends/at work/at school • What are the implications on school literacy for how students speak, think, and behave in the Discourse known as school?

  3. Discussion Discussion:think of a time when you did not know some aspect of the school Discourse that is now so familiar to you. What did you say or how did you behave that betrayed your lack of understanding in that Discourse?

  4. Diversity in Language and Learning Acquiring a second language: • Process of trial and error • Person is exposed with-out formal teaching • Includes social practices Learning a second language: • Occurs under formal teaching conditions • SLLs are better at per- forming what they acquire rather than what they learn

  5. What happens to students who come to school and cannot keep up with their English-speaking peers?

  6. Sheltered English Instruction • Supported teaching techniques for ELLs: • Scaffold instruction • Provide background information • Organize the lessons to simplify syntactic structures (active verbs) • Emphasize visual cues

  7. Sheltered English Instruction • Students will acquire academic literacy • They learn to pool their emerging English with content knowledge and the tasks necessary for understanding that content • Students are expected to transition back to mainstream classes after 1 year • What is the downside to Sheltered English instruction?

  8. Content-based ESL Classrooms • Serve only Second-language Learners • Critics charge that ESL students are unable to keep up with English-speaking peers • They are pulled out of mainstream content area classes • Taught by teachers who emphasize English as a second language over subject matter learning

  9. Students’ language backgrounds, race, and ethnicity are now increasingly diverse, but teachers are mainly English monolinguals. Teachers cannot expect to teach students who speak, think, and behave like themselves.School Discourse is changing, and teachers, as part of that Discourse must change as well.Do you agree?

  10. 5 Standards for Teaching and Learning in Culturally Diverse Classrooms

  11. Center for Research on Education, Diversity, and Excellence (CREDE) call for: • Teachers and students learning through joint productive activity • Development of language and literacy across the curriculum • Connections being made between school and students’ lives • Teachers who can challenge all students with complex cognitive tasks • Discussions, or instructional conversations, that engage students in content area learning

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