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Creating Comprehensible Input for ELLs

Creating Comprehensible Input for ELLs. Kristen Lindahl Presented to the PCSD Based on Making Content Comprehensible for Elementary English Learners: The SIOP Model (Echevarria, Vogt, & Short, 2008). THEORETICAL BASE OF COMPREHENSIBLE INPUT. Stephen Krashen (1983): The Monitor Model

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Creating Comprehensible Input for ELLs

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  1. Creating Comprehensible Input for ELLs Kristen Lindahl Presented to the PCSD Based on Making Content Comprehensible for Elementary English Learners: The SIOP Model (Echevarria, Vogt, & Short, 2008)

  2. THEORETICAL BASE OF COMPREHENSIBLE INPUT Stephen Krashen (1983): The Monitor Model • Consists of 5 hypotheses about L2 acquisition • Public school educators have latched on to two of them Comprehensible Input • Provide input to the student at a level slightly higher than they are able to understand (challenge but not overwhelm) • Abbreviated as “i + 1” • Necessary for L2 acquisition to occur Affective Filter • Outside stressors cause the student to have less “room” for attention to cognitive tasks • A reduction of these stressors enables the student to focus more on cognitive tasks

  3. COMPREHENSIBLE INPUT IN THE SIOP MODEL SIOP Indicator #10: Speech Appropriate for Students’ English Proficiency Levels (E, V, & S, 2008) • Rate and enunciation • Slow down • Pause at thought groups • Enunciate clearly • Complexity of Speech • Use Simple Sentence Structure • Avoid Idioms • Idiom Examples • Roll the Dice Cut to the chase • Kick the bucket Out of this world • Need a hand Hit the road • Touch base Get the hang of it • Zip it See eye to eye • Big Cheese Put your foot down

  4. COMPREHENSIBLE INPUT IN THE SIOP MODEL • SIOP Indicator #11: Clear Explanation of Academic Tasks • Step-by-Step Instructions (no more than 3-5 steps) • Provide a model, or model/demonstrate, visuals • Think-Alouds • Match oral directions with written ones • Comprehension Checks • Example of step-by-step instructions • Differentiate between behavioral and cognitive instructions. • “Read the text. Summarize the information in your graphic organizer.” • Steps in summarization: • 1. Read the text. • 2. Decide what is important (what to keep). • 3. Decide what is less important (what to delete). • 4. Communicate the important parts in your own words.

  5. COMPREHENSIBLE INPUT IN THE SIOP MODEL • SIOP Indicator #12: A Variety of Techniques used to Make Concepts Clear • Gestures, body language, pictures, & objects • Model processes, tasks, and assignments • Preview material/concepts • Allow alternative forms for expressing understanding • Use multimedia/technology • Provide repeated exposures to words, concepts, and skills • Chunk information into smaller bits… “Chunk & Chew” • Graphic & advance organizers

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