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Language and Literacy Development of Second Language Learners

Language and Literacy Development of Second Language Learners. Ideas to help all students with language and literacy. Stages of Language Acquisition. Silent Period 6 months Early Speech 6-12 months Intermediate Speech 12 months Advanced Speech 12 months

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Language and Literacy Development of Second Language Learners

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  1. Language and Literacy Development of Second Language Learners Ideas to help all students with language and literacy

  2. Stages of Language Acquisition • Silent Period 6 months • Early Speech 6-12 months • Intermediate Speech 12 months • Advanced Speech 12 months • Interpersonal communication skills are usually developed in 3-4 years while academiclanguage skills can take up to 7 years or longer to develop and be on par with native English speaking peers

  3. Influences on language development • Previous schooling in home country • Amount of English spoken in the home • Literacy levels of the parents • Amount of English spoken outside of the home environment • Access to English language development activities in and out of school setting

  4. Activities that promote language development • Increased opportunities for students to use target language with peers • Increased student talk to explain situations related to area of study in the classroom • Increased opportunities for students to work in cooperative groups to solve problems • Increased opportunities for students to be exposed to literature and written language

  5. General Principles to guide our instruction • Use of Total Physical Response (TPR) in which language is expressed in words and with actions. • Academic Language Scaffolding or accessing prior knowledge is important prior to beginning a lesson to discover how much, if anything, the students know about a topic. • Use of realia or real life objects about a subject helps the student to connect words and meanings through the use of visual aids.

  6. General strategies to assist English language learners • Flow charts • Venn diagrams • Concept mapping • Language ladders • Asking higher and lower order questions • Jigsaw • KWL • Dialog Journals • Think---Pair---Share

  7. Classroom activities that promote listening skills • Minimal Pairs activities • BINGO activities related to content • Clipped • Team Spelling Test • Team Dictation/Sentence Extension • Following directions activities • Interview/QtA

  8. Classroom activities that promote reading skills • Pre-Reading Activity • Junior Detective • SCAN • You Be the Judge • Hearts activity • Story Grammar • Take Home Reading activities • Books on tape/CD at home or in listening centers

  9. Classroom activities that promote writing skills • Language Experience Approach with strong scaffolding prompts • Flip Flop • Indirect Speech • Framed Paragraphs • Write Tools • Detective

  10. Classroom activities that promote speaking/reading skills • Dialogs • Guided Show and Tell • Oral reading of directions • Oral presentation of written works • Finish the sentence • Add an adjective • What’s my line?

  11. Classroom activities that promote vocabulary skills • Line of Fortune • Concentration with vocabulary or other words/skills/concepts • Fishing for Phonics • Big “W” • Wrong Word • Jeopardy • Classification activities

  12. Classroom activities that promote grammar skills • Word order cards • Wrong Word Writing • Flesh It Out • Who, What, Where, When, How, Why? • Sentence Builders • Sentence Stretchers • Formation/Transformation • Rewrite the Paragraph

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