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Planning for Academic Language Language Objectives

Planning for Academic Language Language Objectives. Why? How?. Why is academic language so important?. Let’s first begin by thinking about the language of school. Students who master academic language are more likely to: be successful in academic and professional settings

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Planning for Academic Language Language Objectives

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  1. Planning for Academic LanguageLanguage Objectives Why? How? ELA pr

  2. Why is academic language so important? Let’s first begin by thinking about the language of school. • Students who master academic language are more likely to: • be successful in academic and professional settings • Students who do not learn language may: • struggle academically • be at a higher risk of dropping out of school ELA pr

  3. What is academic language? Academic language is: • the language used in the classroom and workplace. • the language of text. • the language of assessments. • the language of academic success. • the language of power. It is the language our students need to access. ELA pr

  4. Try This.. 1. Think about your best friend. 2. How would you describe him or her to a colleague? Take a moment to think this through.. 3. Now think about the 911 tragedy and describe the events that occurred that day to a colleague. Would you use different words? Would your sentence structure change? You probably use more “formal” language and you were careful in the way you phrased the events. Yes. your register changed, your tenor, field and mode and audience. ELA pr

  5. Social Language vs. Academic Language • When using social, or informal, English in daily conversation, it’s possible to communicate by using slang and without using English in a grammatically correct way. • You can be understood without using: • articles • prepositions • sophisticated vocabulary • pronoun reference Our students still need social language as a bridge to academic language. ELA pr

  6. Recognizing Social vs. Academic Language Do you feel that we need to explicitly explain these differences to our students? ELA pr

  7. Academic Language The language needed by students to do the work in schools. It includes, for example, discipline-specific vocabulary, grammar and punctuation, and applications of rhetorical conventions and devices that are typical for a content area (e.g., essays, lab reports, discussions of a controversial issue). ELA pr

  8. What we know. • “Students must learn how to think, act, believe, speak, listen, read and write in a way that is expected in school” , Freedman and Freedman (2009) • So we recognize that academic language needs to be embedded into our content areas. How do we plan strategically for this in our content areas? ELA pr

  9. Language Objectives Specify the language that students need to understand academic content and to further demonstrate that understanding. ELA pr

  10. Writing a Language Objective Ask yourself. 1. What is the language your English Language Learner needs to process or produce to demonstrate their learning? 2. Content Objectives : What? 3. Language Objective : How? . 4. How will you provide the opportunity to practice the language? (Support) ELA pr

  11. When we think of language. • We think about the functions of language: How will the language be used? • Will the students, ask questions, compare and contrast, explain etc.? • What are some of the forms of language students will use when using a particular type of function; content vocabulary, grammatical structures etc.? ELA pr

  12. Language Functions and Forms ELA pr

  13. Writing a Language Objective ELA pr

  14. Sentence stems to support intentional language development ELA pr

  15. Writing a Language Objective ELA pr

  16. Sentence stems to support intentional language development ELA pr

  17. Function Domain Students will identify withlabelsthe parts of the water cycle by using evaporation, condensation, and precipitation on a diagram . Form Support Content Objective: The student will understand the parts of the water cycle. ELA pr

  18. Functions for Language Objectives: This list can help you write great Language Objectives for each language domain. ELA pr

  19. Types of Supports ELA pr

  20. Try this….. Supports ELA pr

  21. A thought.. It is not just words that our kids need to learn, but how to articulate those words, read and understand them, and use them in their writing. ELA pr

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