Big Ideas and Research
Listening Comprehension and Oral Language Development
Learning to Read, Write, and Spell
Using Morphemes to learn Vocabulary
Misc.
100
The United Nations defines this as a "fundamental human right and the foundation for lifelong learning"
Literacy
100
A pictured feature that helps ELs build listening comprehension
Closed captions (subtitles, etc.)
100
Words that have to be memorized
Sight Words
100
A minimal unit of meaning of grammatical function
A morpheme
100
He developed the Zone of Proximal Development, an important theory in the education of EL students
Vygotsky
200
The Three Language Functions
The Language Based Theory of Learning
200
A term describing one’s level of reading and writing (speaking and listening?), which also serves as a parallel to the term “literacy”
Oracy
200
A written language where graphemes are inconsistently pronounced
Opaque
200
Lexical and functional morphemes make up this group
Free morphemes
300
Listening, Speaking, Reading, Writing
The Four Domains
300
A quote from a teacher reads: “I have witnessed an extreme example of the ______ ______ in a seventh-grade student…she wouldn’t say a word in class. For 9 months she was mute, and the district was getting ready to test her for a learning disability….”
Silent Period
300
An orthography where each symbol can be a complete word
logographic
300
A morpheme group which included prefixes and suffixes
Derivational Morphemes
400
Krashen's theory students must be exposed to enormous amounts of spoken language
Input Hypothesis
400
A popular EL teaching technique pictured above in which students act out words, sentences, or scenarios
TPR or Total Physical Response Activity
400
This country changed it's alphabet making it far more transparent resulting in substantial gains in literacy
The Ottoman Empire, or Turkey
400
A type of bound morpheme shown in these two sentences
"The store's logo"
"He became happier"
Inflectional morpheme
500
Swain's theory that students must produce enormous amounts written and spoken language
Output Hypothesis
500
Nonverbal communication that is still learned through listening comprehension.
Paralinguistic features or cues (body language, gestures, etc.)
500
The smallest written unit in a language representing one sound
Grapheme
500
A writing system where information may be drawn both from the way words look and sound
A morphophonemic writing system