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refers to the study of rules that depict the way words are put together to create sentences.
What is Syntax?
Primary Home Language Other Than English.
What is a student is identified as a PHLOTE upon enrollment into a district if a language other than English is identifies on the Home Language Survey. A PHLOTE is not necessarily an ELL.
Occurs when a student develops proficiency in a new language without losing his or her home language
What is Additive bilingualism?
Noam Chomsky one of the world’s greatest linguists. LAD allows children to figure out the underlying rules of language on their own, because of their exposure to samples of natural language.
What is Language Acquisition Device (LAD Chomsky)?
Essential ingredient for Second Language Acquisition. When the Affective filter is low, comprehended input is presented.
What is Comprehensible input hypothesis?
Semantics is the study of the definitions and meanings of words, phrases, and sentences.
What are Semantics?
A student who is ELL and with a disability. Labeled ELL and SPED.
What is a Dual Label student?
L1 refers to native language or first language
What is Native Language Instruction? (L1)
Language Acquisition is a subconscious process. With this learning, we are not sure of what our brains are processing. Language Learning however is a conscious process; It is what we do in school.
What is Acquisition v. learning Hypothesis?
Phonology is the study of sounds of a language that is heard when one speaks.
What is Phonology?
Lexicon of a language is the vocabulary.
What is Lexicon?
Schools with 20 or fewer ELL’s within a three grade span may provide instruction through the development of ILLPs created for each ELL.
What is an Individual Language Learner Plan? (ILLP)
L2 is the second language
What is Second Language (L2)?
We acquire language in a predictable order. Sometimes appears “immune to teaching.”
What is Natural order hypothesis?
Smallest units of sound in a language. Change in the sounds of phonemes causes a change in meaning.
What is Phoneme?
When one is talking about pragmatics, they mean the recognition of what is being said when it’s not actually spoken; the "invisible meaning."
What are Pragmatics?
Individual plan that describes the compensatory instruction provided will be maintained in the students’ ELL files. Instruction is focused on the skill or knowledge deficits revealed by the reassessment results.
What is a Written Individualized Compensatory Plan? (WICP)
BICS is social competency, which means one’s ability to get along in social context. This takes 1-3 years to develop.
What is Basic Interpersonal Communication Skills (BICS)?
Even though most language is acquired, we use learned language to monitor or inspect what we acquire and then mentally correct errors. We sometimes correct the errors in our head before they are written or spoken. “Little language teacher in our heads.”
What is Monitor hypothesis?
The study of how the individual words are arranged
What is Morphology?
Instruction that focuses on helping ELL’s to attain proficiency in English.
What is English as a Second Language (ESL)?
Occurs when a new language replaces a student’s home language.
What is Subtractive bilingualism?
Student’s ability to understand and express in both oral and written modes, concepts and ideas that are relevant to success in school. -Cummins
What is Cognitive Academic Language Proficiency. (CALP)
Controls how much comprehensible input gets through to the learner. “Lower the affective filter to maximize comprehensible input.” The affective filter is a barrier due to stress, discomfort, and fear. It must be lowered for any language learning, or any language to occur.
What is Affective filter hypothesis?
Smallest units that carry meaning or have a grammatical function. EX. Birds: Bird-mammal that flies s-plural meaning more than one.
What is morpheme?