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One reason that usually results in a child's language not developing as strongly as the adults in said child's life would like.
What is under-exposure to that language?
Only eight hundred people in the world speak this language.
What is Koro?
Young second language learners use these two consistent features when they begin to communicate in their new language.
What are telegraphic speech and formulaic speech?
This population constitutes about 26% of the United States 0-5 age group.
What is Latinos?
(Also acceptable: What is Latinx?)
Most emergent bilingual students live in these areas.
What are urban areas?
Continuously doing this may have a negative effect on language growth.
What is continuously correcting language?
This is the critical period (age group) to acquire language.
What is birth through age seven?
This form of speech consists of young children's usage of unanalyzed chunks that they have observed others using.
What is formulaic speech?
This initiative called for states to create coordinated systems that tracks children's preschool years experiences, so that early care programs may potentially bridge with early education.
What is the Race to the Top Early Learning Challenge (RTT-ELC) federally funded initiative?
Currently, this is considered one of the most misunderstood issues in pre-kindergarten through high school.
What is how to "educate" students who are not considered proficient in English?
A term used to refer to a phase during which persons may understand, but not speak a second language.
What is passive bilingualism?
Absorbed (collected) by babies as they listen to languages spoken to them.
What are statistics?
The development sequence of young children's acquisition of a second language consists of these four periods (stages).
What are home-language use, nonverbal period, telegraphic and formulaic use, as wells as productive use?
Currently, only these two states mandate bilingual instruction at the preschool level.
What are Illinois and Texas?
A significant educational resource for emergent bilingual students as they develop their English for academic gains.
What is home language?
This tactic is often used to adequately express an idea; especially when there are no equivalents in other languages.
Hint: Idioms
What is code-switching?
(Also acceptable: What is translanguaging?)
This machine allows for millisecond and millimeter spatial accuracies in tracking (recording) magnetic fields as persons think.
What is a magnetoencephalography (MEG) machine?
During this phase, second-language-learning children analyze the language being used around them and begin to guess about how the language is constructed.
What is the productive language use phase?
Utilizing these strategies allow for children to freely use all of their words and languages in school; as well as see their home language(s) being revered and uplifted in the same regards as English.
What are translanguaging strategies?
There are three factors that influence why at the middle and high school level U.S.-born students account for 57% of all students considered ELs.
What are the complex nature of immigration and family settlement, the presence of individual disability, and the failure of school systems to meaningfully educate emergent bilinguals?
Although under-researched, as a generalization, these are the four reasons that may support why bilinguals are superior language learners in comparison to monolinguals.
What are experiences, thinking advantages, personality advances, and confidence?
From a mathematical perspective, the learning of language may slow down when this happens.
What is the period during which language statistics distribution stabilizes?
When a second language learning young child is in this phase of acquiring a new language, s/he may tell a classmate to "Go away!" However, s/he meant to tell her/his peer to go get something.
What is the formulaic speech phase?
Morales adopted this term to describe young children who are learning English to highlight and promote a strengths-based perspective concerning bilingualism and bilingual education.
What is emergent bilingual?
Garcia considers these to be the five most critical aspects of educating emergent bilingual students.
What are language and literacy considerations; multimodalities, digital technologies, and learning; curriculum and pedagogy; family and community engagement; as well as assessment?