Instructional Models & Programs
Describes programs that target language minority students who are English dominant and native English speakers who desire to become bilingual.
What is bilingual immersion?
The process of collecting and analyzing a variety of data from students that provides evidence of their learning and growth over an extended period.
What is assesment?
A process in which small groups of students collaborate and interact to accomplish as specific learning task or activity.
What is cooperative learning?
Refers to the use of translanguaging and other strategies for providing support for English language learners in their home language during language and academic content-area instruction.
What are bilingual strategies?
In testing ELLs, refers to modifications in the testing environment or testing procedures, or modifications to the test instrument itself.
What are accommodations?
The ability to express one's self well in speech. Also can denote the oral skills used in formal education, particularly around reading and writing.
What is oracy?
A dual language bilingual education program that typically serves only speakers of the same home language.
What is one-way immersion?
A variety of experimental measures to show student development, based on results of standardized tests.
What are growth models?
A range of strategies that teachers use to scaffold effective classroom discussions.
What are productive talk moves?
A program for language minority students to develop or maintain their native language which includes bilingual programs for ELLs and foreign language classes for native speakers.
What is a heritage language program?
Refers to the unfair advantages or disadvantages that may be given to certain students that can affect their performance in testing.
What is bias?
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?
An instructional model and tool for planning, implementing, and evaluating sheltered English content-area instruction developed by Echevarria, Vogt, and Short.
What is Sheltered Instruction Observation Protocol (SIOP)?
What is standard error of measurement (SEM)?
An assessment of students' oral language proficiency using an analytic scoring rubric that focuses on the aspects of comprehension, fluency, vocabulary, pronunciation, and grammar.
What is SOLOM-R?