KEY TERMS
What does ELL stand for?
English Language Learner
LMS
Language Minority Student
A language teaching method that involves using actions and gestures to teach vocabulary and language structures.
What is TPR?
This summative evaluation tool uses the acronym ELPA
English Language Proficiency Assessment
the practice of alternating between two or more languages or varieties of language in conversation:
What is code switching?
The ability to speak or write a language quickly, accurately, and effortlessly
Fluency
LEP?
What is Limited English Proficiency?
A research-based instructional framework designed to support language and content learning for English language learners in mainstream classrooms.
What is SIOP? (Sheltered Instruction Observation Protocol)
An ongoing, informal assessment used to monitor student learning and provide feedback for instructional planning
What is a formative assessment?
An idiomatic phrase consisting of a verb and another element, typically either an adverb, as in break down, or a preposition, for example see to, or a combination of both, such as look down on.
What is a phrasal verb?
An approach to teaching that involves adapting instruction to meet the diverse learning needs of students.
What is differentiated instruction?
TESOL?
Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages
Providing temporary support and guidance to help students learn new concepts and skills, gradually reducing the level of support as they become more proficient
What is scaffolding?
These are the 4 areas tested on the ELPA21?
What is Mandarin?
Words in different languages that have similar meanings and similar linguistic roots
What are cognates?
iFEP?
Initially Fluent English Proficient
A way to support writing. It provides the framework for what a correct sentence looks and sounds like.
What is a sentence frame?
A spontaneous method of evaluation where the instructor tests participants’ knowledge using no standard criteria or rubric.
What is an informal assessment?
This is an imaginary wall that is placed between a learner and language input.
What is affective filter?
Examples include total physical response (TPR), language modeling, guided practice, and vocabulary development activities.
LPAC?
Language Proficency Assessment Committee
A powerful, visual learning tool used to help students organize their ideas.
What is a graphic organizer?
These are the 5 levels given to ELPA scores (1-5)
What is 1-Beginning 2-Early Intermediate, 3-Intermediate, 4-Early Advanced, 5-Advanced?
A theory developed by Stephen Krashen that states language learners improve in a language when they are given language input that is slightly more advanced than their current level.
What is comprehensible input?