The Basics
Self-contained grade-level classrooms for ELL’s with teachers who are trained and certified to provide language and content instruction for ELL students.
What is Structured English Immersion (SEI)?
the study of sounds of a language that is heard when one speaks.
What is Phonology?
Another term for sheltered instruction, preferred in California and other states because it places emphasis on the fact that such instruction is academically rigorous and specially designed to match the linguistic needs of the students
What is Specifically Designed Academic Instruction in English?
Refers to a wide range of programs such as in school and after school or weekend programs in which language minority students have the opportunity to learn their native or heritage language.
What is Heritage Language Program?
A person whose first language is something other than English and who is in the process of attaining proficiency in English.
What is English Language Learner (ELL)?
Smallest units of sound in a language. Change in these causes a change in meaning.
What are Phonemes?
A tool for planning, implementing, and evaluating sheltered English content-area instruction.
What is Sheltered Instruction Observational Protocol?
Recognize that newly arrived ELL’s with little to no proficiency in English will have very difficult times learning in a classroom with English instruction. These programs are great for students when bilingual education is not an option.
What is a Newcomer Program?
Individuals who are unable to communicate in English because they have not learned the language and have not developed fluency.
What is Limited English Proficient (LEP)?
the study of how the individual words are arranged
What is Morphology?
Also known as early exit programs. They target ELL’s who speak the same L1 and they are usually found in the primary grades of elementary school. The goal is to transition ELL’s to mainstream English classrooms.
What is Transitional Bilingual Education?
Placing an ELL student in a mainstream classroom where there is no ESL instruction, no sheltered instruction, and no primary language support.
What is Submersion?
A term used in special education for ELLs with Special Need
What is Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Exceptional Students (CLDES)?
Smallest units that carry meaning or have a grammatical function. EX. Birds: Bird-mammal that flies s-plural meaning more than one.
What is a Morpheme?
Sometimes called Maintenance or late-exit bilingual education. They lack federal support therefore TBE’s are more common.
What is Developmental Bilingual Education?
A language teaching approach in which students physically respond to language input to internalize the meaning and to demonstrate their comprehension of the language.
What is Total Physical Response (TRP)?
A standard based assessment that meets both state and federal requirements to measure students English language proficiency.
Arizona English Language Learner Assessment (AZELLA)?
This refers to the study of rules that depict the way words are put together to create sentences.
What is Syntax?
Sometimes referred to as two way immersion or dual immersion. They are designed for even numbers of English speakers and ELL’s from the same language background.
What are Dual Language Programs?
An Alternative label for an ESL programs and instruction, commonly used at the elementary schools.
What is English Language Development (ELD)?