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Terms of Instruction
Services
Classroom Adaptations
Building Vocabulary
100
A child's home language
What is heritage language?
100
Anyone learning to speak English whose native language is not English.
What is English Learners?
100
These vary widely from state to state and from district to district.
What is services available for English learners?
100
The most basic principles underlying the education of English learners and all others in the general education classroom.
What is Principles of Culturally Responsive Instruction
100
One of the most important ways that general education teachers can assist English learners to succeed in classroom activities.
What is vocabulary development?
200
parents are asked to fill this out if they indicate they speak an additional language in the home.
What is a language background survey?
200
Learners of English who live in places where English is, by and large, an academic subject, functioning narrowly in that culture as a tool for communicating with outsiders.
What is English as a foreign language?
200
Promotes the use of techniques and strategies for making grade level content comprehensible for ELL's while promoting their English development.
What is Sheltered Instruction?
200
communicate high expectations, use active teaching methods, facilitate learning, positive perspectives on parents and families of diverse students are all examples of this.
What is culturally responsive pedagogy?
200
These enter Kindergarten with a vocabulary of 5,000 or more words.
What is native English speakers?
300
to determine the student's language proficiency in the heritage language.
What is assessment?
300
The language learned at home from the primary caregivers.
What is first language?
300
students are taught in two languages for multiple years.
What is Developmental Bilingual Education?
300
When English learners are the concern, it is important to take these into consideration.
What is principles related to language?
300
provide students with opportunities to hear, say, read and write new words, make the classroom a comfortable place to practice new language skills, allow students to be silent when they are first learning a new language.
What are suggestion for how to assist English learners in vocabulary development?
400
observing language in the classroom and other school settings.
What is the teacher's role?
400
Any language that is learned after the first language.
What is second language?
400
English language learners and English speaking students are taught together in two languages.
What is Two-Way Immersion?
400
tend to learn English faster than those whose first language is very different from English.
What is students who speak languages that are similar to English?
400
A strategy for teaching new words and phrases where teachers model and students mimic whole body responses while speaking new vocabulary.
What is Total Physical Response?
500
according to Cummins (1981), not a simple, unitary skill.
What is Language Proficiency?
500
English learner in the first stages of learning English
What is Non-English Proficient?
500
The goals of these are to acculturate immigrant students with limited English progiciency to U.S. schools, to assist students in acquiring beginning english language skills and to develp core academic skills and knowledge.
What is Newcomer Programs?
500
may initially experience some temporary language delay in achieving developmental language milestones and some language mixing, which tends to disappear over time.
What is children who simultaneously learn two languages from birth?
500
expressions in which words do not carry their literal meanings.
What are idioms?