Strategies
the 4 domains of language acquisition
What are listening, speaking, writing, & reading?
a period of time many new learners of a second language go through before they feel comfortable speaking in the new language
What is the silent period?
a language teaching approach in which students physically respond to language input (e.g. commands) to internalize the meaning and demonstrate their comprehension of the language
What is total physical response?
an approach to teaching reading that favors instructional programs that immerse students in authentic texts that become familiar, meaningful contexts to support direct reading instruction
What is the Holistic Approach?
writing instruction in which the teacher constructs a text in enlarged print (e.g., on chart paper), demonstrating a variety of writing strategies and techniques students are expected to learn and use in their own writing
What is modeled writing?
Of the 4 traditional language skills, which one is by far the one we use most frequently?
What is listening?
refers to a variety of ways a speaker can directly or indirectly provide feedback in a way that encourages his or her conversation partner to correct an error
What are prompts?
the period of time after a question has been posed during which students can think and formulate answers in their head before being required to answer aloud
What is wait time?
an approach to literacy instruction that recognizes the need for some direct instruction in reading skills but emphasizes the importance of providing such instruction in meaningful contexts to ensure that students are able to comprehend and use what they read for authentic purposes
What is the balanced approach?
writing instruction in which the teacher, in collaboration with the students, constructs an enlarged text (e.g., on chart paper). Students suggest sentences and revisions and the teacher models the use of a variety of writing strategies students are expected to use in their own writing.
What is shared writing?
Of the 4 traditional language skills, which one the one we use second most frequently?
What is speaking?
refers to a variety of ways a speaker can indirectly provide corrective feedback for a conversation partner by repeating the partner’s utterance in a positive and reinforcing manner that models correct usage
What are recasts?
refers to various forms of feedback to language learners designed to help them recognize and correct errors in their language production
What is corrective feedback?
argues that students must first learn sounds and letters and use them to decode words and then sentences before they can go on to read extended texts in paragraphs and books
What is the skills-based approach?
writing instruction designed to address an area of need within students’ writing development; usually begins with a mini lesson on some aspect of writing; then students practice the writing principle or strategy they were just taught, under the teacher’s supervision
What is guided writing?
a range of strategies that teachers use to scaffold effective classroom discussions
What are productive talk moves?
words that differ by a single phoneme (sand/hand, rag/rat), typically used to help students distinguish specific sounds that change the meanings of words and help students improve their pronunciations
What are minimal pairs?
statements that outline the language expectations for ELLs at each level of English language proficiency associated with specific standards and academic tasks
What are language progressions?
Reading instruction in which the teacher reads a big book or other source of enlarged text with the students, modeling a variety of reading strategies and using the text (once the students are familiar with it) to teach reading skills
What is shared reading?
writing instruction in which students and teachers compose the text together and share the pen
What is interactive writing?
an assessment of a students’ oral language proficiency using an analytic scoring rubric that focuses on the aspects of comprehension, fluency, vocabulary, pronunciation, & grammar
What is SOLOM-R?
3 ways that you can adjust the WAY you talk for ELLs at the beginning levels:
What is
- slow down rate of speech
- enunciate clearly
- use simple sentence structure
things that people use to make meaning during conversation
What is words, gestures, facial expressions, tone of voice, knowledge of the topic, setting or context of the conversation
a type of reading instruction that takes place in small groups of (3-6) students who read at about the same level and have their their own copies of the same text at their instructional level
What is guided reading?
3 types of scaffolding that can be used to support ELLs when they are writing independently
What are word walls, thematic word charts, personal word books, dictionaries, ask 3 then me, and mini-lessons?