Second Language Development
Level 1, Pre-Production, refers to students who are in the ______ period, listening to the new language, but rarely speaking it.
What is the silent period?
Legislation that was a result of a lawsuit against the Florida Board of Education regarding equal right for English Learners.
What is The Florida Consent Decree?
It takes 5 years to _______ __________ to attain CALP after initial exposure to the second language.
What is seven years?
James Asher developed this approach that uses commands and physical activity to increase language retention and understanding.
What is Total Physical Response (TPR)?
What is a code in Florida to represent a K-12 grade ELL enrolled in classes for ELL?
What is LY?
For this stage of English proficiency, teachers should focus on learning strategies, and provide contextual support and scaffolding for academic tasks.
What is Level 4, Intermediate Fluency?
A student in Florida must answer yes to at least one of the three questions on this form to be assessed for ESOL.
What is the Home Language Survey?
To attain BICS, it takes between
What is 6 months to 2 years?
The name of an approach where only ELLs are in a class and instruction is in the teacher’s language. But adapted to the proficiency levels of each student.
What is Sheltered Instruction?
L1
What is The students home/native language.
According to Krashen, subconscious language acquisition requires meaningful interaction and ___________ _________ in the second language.
What is natural communication?
Section V of the Florida Consent Decree covers
What are Monitoring Issues?
Children acquire what language skills in a natural way from their friends, the media, and day to day experiences.
What is BICS-Basic Interpersonal Communication Skills?
In this approach, ELLs are instructed in a regular classroom alongside fluent English speakers.
What is Inclusion?
TESOL
What is Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages
During this level of proficiency, students use phrases and short sentences to express complete thoughts.
What is Level 3-Speech Emergent?
The Florida Consent Decree specifies that the main goal of the ESOL program is to develop the students’ _____________ in English and academic potential.
What is proficiency?
The language skills required for academic achievement are these.
What is CALP- Cognitive Academic Language Proficiency?
A content-based approach that makes content and learning strategies the main focus of instruction, while language skills are acquired in context as needed.
What is the Cognitive Academic Language Learning Approach (CALLA)?
The alternate use of two languages interchangeably within the same sentence (e.g. Good morning Amigo!)
What is Code-switching?
According to Krashen, acquiring second language ability requires that the learner receives _______ _______ that slightly exceeds the learner’s current level of ability.
What is comprehensible input?
The Florida Consent Decree specifies that every ELL is entitled to _____________________to appropriate programming.
What is equal access?
According to Cummins Quadrants, solving math problems using graphs, charts, figures, diagrams, or manipulatives, and doing hands-on science experiments, are activities that fall under level ___. Cognitively_________ and Context ___________.
What is Level III-Cognitively Demanding and Context Embedded?
These classrooms are composed of both ELLS and native English speakers and all instruction is in both English and ELLS native language.
What is the Dual Language Approach?
The alternate use of two languages interchangeably within the same sentence (e.g., Good morning, Amigo!)
What is Code-switching?