Second Language Acquisition
L1 refers to this.
What is first language?
This is how many new words an ELL student should be learning each week.
What is 8-10 new words?
This is the state cut off score for the ACCESS test.
What is 4.5?
This is what LEP refers to.
What is Limited English Proficiency?
This is the minimum amount of wait time given to an ELL student.
What is 7 seconds?
BICS refers to this.
What is Basic Interpersonal Communication Skills?
Please translate "Gil had denarpened Farfie's marsden."
What is Gil had forgotten Farfie's birthday?
This is the number of students in one language group that determines if a district must start a bilingual program or apply for a waiver.
What is 20?
This is what ELL refers to.
What is English Language Learner?
This is a strategy to discourage one partner from "hogging" the conversation.
What is "I have the floor," "put in your two cents,"or equity sticks?"
This is how many years it usually takes to become academically proficient in a new language.
What is 5-7 years?
These are sentence supports where you provide parts of a sentence with strategic blanks.
What are sentence frames?
This is the number of proficiency levels.
What is 6?
This is what ESL refers to.
What is English as a Second Language?
This is the component involving student to student talk/participation.
What is Interaction?
CALP refers to this.
What is Cognitive Academic Language Proficiency.
These are real world objects and props that will help reinforce and introduce new vocabulary.
What is realia?
This is the number of times each week that an ESL student must receive services.
What is 5 days a week?
This is what L1 and L2 refer to.
What is first language and second language?
What is acculturation?
This is the first six months when a newcomer student may not be participating in class discussion.
What is the silent period?
This is the method where you use your entire body to gesture the meanings of new vocabulary.
What is TPR - Total Physical Response?
This is the mandated length of an ESL period each day.
What is the same length as the school's basic core subject period?
This is what WIDA refers to.
What is World-Class Instructional Design and Assessment?
This is when a student loses their home culture/language and only identifies with the majority culture/language of the country.
What is assimilation?