Big Ideas and Research
Listening Comprehension and Oral Language Development
Learning to Read, Write, and Spell
Using Morphemes to learn Vocabulary
Misc.
100

The United Nations defines this as a "fundamental human right and the foundation for lifelong learning"

Literacy

100

A pictured feature that helps ELs build listening comprehension

Closed captions (subtitles, etc.)

100

Words that have to be memorized

Sight Words
100

A minimal unit of meaning of grammatical function

A morpheme

100

He developed the Zone of Proximal Development, an important theory in the education of EL students

Vygotsky

200

The Three Language Functions

The Language Based Theory of Learning

200

A term describing one’s level of reading and writing (speaking and listening?), which also serves as a parallel to the term “literacy”

Oracy


200

A written language where graphemes are inconsistently pronounced

Opaque

200

Lexical and functional morphemes make up this group

Free morphemes

300

Listening, Speaking, Reading, Writing

The Four Domains

300

A quote from a teacher reads: “I have witnessed an extreme example of the ______ ______ in a seventh-grade student…she wouldn’t say a word in class. For 9 months she was mute, and the district was getting ready to test her for a learning disability….”

Silent Period

300

An orthography where each symbol can be a complete word

logographic

300

A morpheme group which included prefixes and suffixes

Derivational Morphemes

400

Krashen's theory students must be exposed to enormous amounts of spoken language

Input Hypothesis


400

A popular EL teaching technique pictured above in which students act out words, sentences, or scenarios

TPR or Total Physical Response Activity

400

This country changed it's alphabet making it far more transparent resulting in substantial gains in literacy

The Ottoman Empire, or Turkey

400

A type of bound morpheme shown in these two sentences 

"The store's logo"

"He became happier"

Inflectional morpheme

500

Swain's theory that students must produce enormous amounts written and spoken language

Output Hypothesis

500

Nonverbal communication that is still learned through listening comprehension.

Paralinguistic features or cues (body language, gestures, etc.)

500

The smallest written unit in a language representing one sound

Grapheme

500

A writing system where information may be drawn both from the way words look and sound

A morphophonemic writing system