BICS & CALPS
Basic Interpersonal Communication Skills (BICS)
What is Social Language?
A set of common beliefs and values that is shared by a group of people and that binds them together into a society.
What is culture?
Create, evaluate and analyze are the top tiers of this pyramid.
What is Bloom's Taxonomy?
Students will be able to orally describe characteristics of liquids, solids, and gases to a partner is an example of a science _____________ _____________ .
What is a language objective?
Providing supports for students as they learn new skills or information.
What is scaffolding?
Cognitive Academic Language Proficiency (CALP)
What is Academic Language?
Examples of ______ would be allowing ELLs extra time, bilingual dictionaries and reducing length of assignments.
What are modifications?
Reading, writing, listening and speaking
What are the 4 language domains?
Lesson objectives that specifically outline the type of language that students will need to learn and use in order to accomplish the goals of the lesson.
What are language objectives?
When asking questions, increasing this by three to five seconds, teachers can: Increase student achievement, increase number of higher cognitive responses and increase contributions by non-participatory students
What is "wait time"?
Can take from 5 -7 years to be on level with their peers.
What is CALP?
The yearly NJ state-mandated assessment for showing growth and achievement in English language proficiency.
What is the ACCESS?
Entering, Beginning, Developing, Expanding, Bridging, Reaching
What are Language Proficiency Levels?
Words in two languages that share a similar meaning, spelling, and pronunciation.
What are cognates?
Paraphrasing, using "think alouds", Reinforcing contextual definitions and providing correct pronunciation by repeating students’ responses is called _________ scaffolding.
What is verbal?
The period from about one month to a year, when the student is developing receptive language skills in preparation for speaking.
What is the "silent period"?
2nd ___________ __________ is best developed through contextual, meaningful activities that focus on language use combined with guidance along the way from the teachers.
What is language acquisition?
TEACHER PREPARATION, BUILDING BACKGROUND, COMPREHENSIBLE INPUT, STRATEGIES, INTERACTION, APPLICATION, LESSON DELIVERY, REVIEW AND ASSESSMENT
What are the 8 components of the SIOP Model?
"What" is to content objectives as "____" is to verbal objectives.
What is "how"?
rule of thumb, sharp as a tack and sit tight are examples of ___________ .
What are idioms?
A sense of confusion and uncertainty sometimes with feelings of anxiety that may affect people exposed to an alien culture or environment without adequate preparation.
What is Culture Shock?
The term _________ refers to methods or tools that educators use to evaluate, measure, and document the academic readiness, learning progress, skill acquisition, or educational needs of students.
What is assessment?
One of the most persistent findings in reading research is that the extent of students’ _________ knowledge relates strongly to their reading comprehension and overall academic success.”
What is vocabulary?
Language is gained faster while learning ________ because the language is contextualized and used in meaningful ways.
What is content?
These kinds of questions help build answers to our essential questions.
What are supporting or subsidiary questions?