Garcia
What is one advantage do multilingual learners have over the English learners?
Multilingual learners are celebrated for their bilingual/multilingual capacity instead o being focus on the need of them to learn English.
True or False
Children develop different speeds in their bilingual learning.
True
(Children are not uniform, they have different abilities and interests).
What can be a difficult situation for students in a bilingual setting?
They may be some people who do and some people who do not understand them.
How do babies learn one language over another?
Babies register the statistic of the sounds by listening to people talking around them.
Who introduced the Preschool for All Initiative proposing to allocate federal funds for states based on their population of low to moderate-income four-year-olds?
Barack Obama
What percentage of Latino emergents drop out of high school?
59%
What is language much about?
Communication and Identity
What is the name of the feature of using a few content words when second language learners begin to use their new language?
Telegraphic Speech
At what age does language exhibits a systematic decline?
At age 7.
What does early experience represent for children during the preschool years?
A bridge of early care programs and early education.
What does it mean for teachers, working with emergent bilingual students?
It means holding higher expectations of them rather than simply remediating their limitations and focusing on their English learning.
Why do adults learning often struggle with pronunciation?
Even though adults became perfectly fluent in the second language, usually they still carry the ring of their first language.
What do two-second language learners have to use to communicate with each other?
All of the useful language they knew.
What is the first critical period in language development?
When babies try to master which sounds are used in their language.
How do we employ a child's home language to enhance learning?
By creating home language activities.
Who makes up the overwhelming majority of all emergent bilinguals?
Latinx (Term refer to Latinos or Hispanic)
What is a minority language?
It is the language spoken by a minority population in a territory.
True or False
The second language learners use phrases like "I don't know and buy-buy" at the final part of their learning process.
False
(Early in the acquisition process)
What is the purpose of studying how the sounds are learned?
To have a model for the rest of language, social, emotional, and cognitive development during childhood.
What is particularly important at a time when oral language is a primary focus of instruction?
Vocabulary development.
What is the use of the language of emergent bilingual students?
Approximately 85% of emergent bilinguals are able to communicate orally in English. However, they have difficulty using English for Literacy and other academic tasks.
What is it called when two or more people switch languages in a conversation?
Code-Switching
When do we know students have both the vocabulary and the grammatical form under control?
When they can express themselves in highly sophisticated ways.
What is the main idea of the linguistic genius of babies' video?
To learn and discuss how babies under a year of age, from different cultures, can detect sounds in any language from around the world.
What does DLL stand for?
Dual Language Learners