Court Cases
Vocabulary 1
Vocabulary 2
Models
Programs
100
The court case that outlined requirements for school districts and schools to address the needs of ELL's.
What is Lau v. Nichols
100
ELPS
What is English Language Proficiency Standards
100
using a students home language during English as a second language or sheltered English content area instruction to make the English content area more comprehensible.
What is PLS
100
semantics, pragmatics, phonology and syntactic systems
What is 4 language sub-systems
100
A minority and native American group of students, who are dominant English speakers are combined and taught nearly 100% in a non-English target class for a minimum of two years until both languages are at 50/50 balance.
What is Bilingual Immersion Program
200
ELL programs are based on a sound educational theory, implemented effectively and evaluated to determine whether they are effective in helping students overcome language barriers.
What is Castaneda v. Pickard
200
CALP
What is Cognitive Academic Language Proficiency
200
they provide a summary of what students know and can do.
What is summative assessment
200
Throughout the year Spanish speaking students are provided with at least 30 minutes of English in instructions daily in various subjects and contents. And the rest of the day they are taught in their native language. As they progress in English, their native language is no longer needed.
What is Transitional Bilingual Education
200
This program features numerous English proficiency levels in one classroom with one teacher for all subjects.
What is Self-Contained ESL Program
300
This case dealt with restricting foreign language education that violated the due process clause of the 14th amendment.
What is Meyer v Nebraska
300
SIOP
What is Sheltered Instruction Observation Protocol
300
the use of ongoing assessments that help to identify a students strengths and needs.
What is formative assessment
300
This model is requested to be studied for a small portion of the day, in addition to the regular daily instructions. This will prevent students from losing their primary language.
What is Heritage Language Program
300
This is a center for beginning-level ELL's who have been in the U.S. for only 1 or 2 years.
What is a Newcomer Center
400
Public schools were prohibited from denying immigrant students access to a public education.
What is Plyer v Doe
400
ESEA
What is Elementary and Secondary Education Act
400
the new federal guidelines of education
What is Every Student Succeeds Act
400
This is sometimes called a two-way immersion. It is helpful in helping students understand cross culture linguistics as content instructions are taught in two languages.
What is Dual Language Programs
400
Teaching a second language using the learner's second language.
What is Immersion
500
This court case challenged racial segregation in California schools.
What is Mendez v Westminster
500
the process of collecting and analyzing a wide variety of data from students that provides evidence of their learning and growth over time.
What is assessment
500
This Act provides funding for ELL and immigrants. It was passed 2001 .
What is No Child Left Behind
500
Johnny is an ELL student who no longer receives 90% of his home language in instructions. He is now in the fourth grade and receives about 40% of home language and 60% in content-area instruction through sheltered instruction. Johnny will continue in the program until it ends. Also, known as late exit.
What is Developmental Bilingual Education (DBE)
500
A program model for ELL's in which students are placed in mainstream or SEI classrooms but are regularly pulled out of class for ESL lessons taught by an ESL teacher.
What is Pull-Out ESL