First or Second language
Children normally achieve this language to mastery
What is first language?
The amount of words that socioeconomically disadvantaged children approximately miss by age three
What is 30 million?
In a classic dual language model there are ____
teachers.
What is two?
The teacher played a video on matter. A student learned the meaning of the word "liquid".
What is incidental?
People learn this language in their subconscious
What is first language?
Prior to the discovery of "the word gap" the reason for low test scores from socioeconomically disadvantaged children was assumed to be due to ______
What is genetics?
In the classic dual language model one teacher teaches in the students' primary language and the other teacher_______________
What is teaches English?
A student read the word "pretest" in a storybook during independent reading time. The teacher explained to the student the meaning of the word "pretest". The teacher explained the prefix "pre" to the student.
Language learned as a choice or motivation
What is a second language?
The researchers who studied "The Word Gap"
Who are Hart & Rinsley?
True or False
A single teacher cannot teach alone in a dual language program.
What is false?
The teacher placed the word "biology" on the board. The teacher asked the students to research the word biology on their computers. The students discussed the word "biology" with their table groups. The students read two texts with the word "biology" in the texts. The students were asked to write a paragraph about why "biology" is important to them.
What is extended instruction?
Affective factors play a major role in determining proficiency
What is second language?
The "word gap" can also create a gap in academics which is called___________
What is the achievement gap?
Units that incorporate the same subject to teach dual language vocabulary
What are thematic units?
A student read the sentence, "The dog gulped down the water". The student now understands the word "gulped".
What is incidental?
Adult learners are unlikely to achieve perfect mastery
What is second language?
It was not an actual war which involved physical contact... but the "word gap" was discovered during it.
What is the War on poverty?
True or false.
An importance is placed on keeping value on the primary language and building onto it in the dual language model.
What is true?
The teacher issued a text on the environment. The students did not know the word environment. The teacher led the class in researching the word "environment".
What is embedded?