Introduction
Linguistic Diversity & Learning
Understanding Language Issues in a Sociopolitical Context
Approaches to Teaching Language Minority Students
Program Models for Teaching English Language Learners
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What does ELL stand for?
What is English Language Learners
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In the United States this viewed as a burden for culturally dominated groups, however is an asset among middle-class and wealthy students.
What is bilingualism
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According to Portes & Rumbaut, the way in which immigrants have been received and incorporated into this also matters a great deal?
What is society
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This refers to a framework for understanding language acquisition and development that adds a new language rather than subtracts an existing one.
What is additive bilingualism.
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This is an approach that integrates students whose native language is English with students for whom English is a second language.
What is two-way bilingual education or two-way immersion.
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True or False: a principal can enforce a no speaking foreign language rule?
What is true.
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Teachers and schools may view English language learners as this in order to urge students to abandon their native language.
What is "handicapped"
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Although bilingual education is a political issue, we need to emphasize that it is also a what other type of issue?
What is pedagogical issue.
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Comprehensive input, cues that are contextualized in their instruction, is useful for teachers with these types of students in their classroom.
What is students with language minority.
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A primary objective of bilingual education is to develop this in the English language
What is proficiency and literacy.
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What percentage of Americans speak another language?
What is 20 percent.
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A good deal of research confirms the positive influence of knowing this.
What is more than one language.
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Conventional U.S. educational wisdom holds that native language and culture need to be forgotten in order for students to be what?
What is academically successful.
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Teachers can support native languages other than English in different ways. One example is teachers tap into some of the resources available in students' native languages by creating this community with the help of the students, their families, elders and other community members.
What is multi literate learning community.
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A problem for schools with language programs is when they have students who speak a particular language for which there may not be a sufficient number of speakers to entitle them legally to a bilingual program. These populations are called what?
What is low incidence populations.
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What percentage of foreign speakers are of the Spanish language?
What is 60% or 12% of total population in US
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Schools may disregard language minority students native languages and cultures for what they believe to be good reasons: because they link students' English language proficiency with prospective....?
What is Economic and social mobility.
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Rather than supporting the elimination of _____ use at home and at school, the research reviewed here supports promoting this _______ literacy as a way to enhance learning English more effectively.
What is Native Language
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Encouraging student's native language is supported through research that shows the skills they develop in their native language are easily transferred to this.
What is a second or third language.
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There is a burden not only on bilingual students, but finding teachers. They are suspected of being less intelligent, less academically prepared and less able than nonbilingual teachers- in spite of the fact that those who have been prepared are often fluent in 2 languages and have developed a wide range of these approaches.
What is pedagogical approaches.
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Does one culture lack anything from the other?
What is no.
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A recent metareview of the benefits of bilingualism concluded that bilingualism is reliably associated with increased attention control, working memory, metalinguistic awareness, and abstract reasoning, all of which, naturally can contribute positively to....?
What is academic success.
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A study in a rural high school in northern California by Rebecca Callahan found that English proficiency was not the most salient influence that on academic achievement of language minority students, however this was.
What is track placement.
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This is who the responsibility to create powerful learning environments for English language learners falls on.
What is entire school.
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This is the tendency for Whites to move to suburban or other residential areas when African Americans and Latinos move into the neighborhood.
What is white flight
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