A comprehensive approach to literacy instruction that integrates content, literacy, and language instruction and connects reading with oral language and writing.
What is Teaching for Biliteracy?
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Spanish, the bridge, and English.
What are the three parts of teaching for biliteracy?
100
Monolingual Literacy: Spanish and English are governed by distinct linguistic rules and cultural norms.
Biliteracy:Spanish is a minority language within a majority culture. Students use all of their linguistic skills to develop literacy.
What is the difference between teaching for biliteracy and teaching for monolingual literacy?
100
Learning new concepts and literacy in one language, bridging the languages, and extension activities in the other language.
What is the biliteracy framework?
100
Heritage language programs that are typically thought of as alternatives to foreign language programs.
What are SNS programs?
200
Teachers provide instruction in classic comprehension strategies and basic skills. Builds on students' background knowledge and requires them to apply their developing skills to authentic tasks.
What is a constructivist approach?
200
The connection between new concepts in one language and the instructional moment when teachers bring the two languages together.
What is the bridge?
200
Language majority: Supported and affirmed by a multitude of structures.
Language minority: Not supported in the same way as a majority language; lack of structures the language's status.
What do the terms language minority and language majority refer to in the United States?
200
Speaking and listening to build and develop background knowledge and vocabulary.
What does the teacher focus on first in a bilingual unit?
200
This facilitates the tasks of deciding schedules and making decisions about literacy.
What is an allocation plan?
300
Language spoken with friends
What is social language?
300
What is a two-way aspect of the Bridge
The Bridge goes from English to Spanish and from Spanish to English?
300
Students with a base in Spanish who are new to English or students with a base in English who are new to Spanish.
What is a sequential bilingual learner?
300
Students compare the concepts in the two languages.
What is the second part of the bilingual unit?
300
Literacy activities in each language to complement each other.
What is literacy as a whole?
400
Language that is relatively formal (oral and written).
What is academic language?
400
Students feeling that what they know in one language cannot be used in the other language.
What is keeping the two languages separate?
400
Students exposed to two languages from birth
What is a simultaneous bilingual?
400
Activities conducted in the other language using listening, speaking, reading and writing.
What is the third part of the bilingual unit?
400
Literacy is integrated with the content and the skills and concepts do not need to be taught in both languages.
What is a biliteracy setting?
500
Students who are developing biliteracy in dual language programs.
Who are two language learners or bilingual learners?
500
It occurs during the bridge and whenever students and teachers make connections between the two languages
What is bridging or translanguaging?
500
Programs designed to develop a solid base in content and literacy in language 1 in order to transfer those skills to language 2.
What are early exit bilingual programs?
500
In contrast to the planned bridge, this occurs when students compare and contrast both languages.
What is bridging?
500
50/50, 80/20, 90/10
What are different developmental bilingual programs?