Bi/Multilingualism
Types of Language Learners
Pedagogies, Viewpoints, and Discourses
Terms That Start With "R" or "S"
100

A situation in which a second language is eventually added to a student's home language without replacing it 

What is additive bilingualism

100

Label for students who are non-native language speakers

What is English Language Learner?
100

A POV in which the home language ELL is viewed as a problem that needs to be overcome

What is language-as-a-problem orientation?

100

Specifically designed instruction to meet the unique needs of a child with a disability guided by IDEA regulations

What is special education?

200

A situation in which a second language eventually replaces a student's home language

What is subtractive bilingualism?

200

An alternative label for ELLs that draws attention to the other language or languages in their linguistic repertoires, situates these learners in a continuum of bilingual development

What is emergent bilingual
200

A POV in which the home language is viewed as a strength

What is language-as-a-resource orientation?

200

Reclassification of a student from ELL status to fluent English proficient status

What is redesignation?

300

The development of proficiency in two languages at the same time 

What is simultaneous bilingualism?

300

Describes a student who is a native speaker of the standard language spoken by the dominant group of a given society

What is language majority student?

300

Pedagogies that aim to address issues of power and social inequities through positive social transformations by sustaining linguistic, literate, and cultural pluralism in classrooms and schools 

What are culturally sustaining pedagogies?
300

A term used to describe diversity across and within immigrant and ethnic groups 

What is superdiversity?


400

The development of proficiency in a second language after proficiency has been developed in the first

What is sequential bilingualism? 

400

Describes a student who is a non-native speaker of the language spoken by the dominant group of a given society

What is language minority student?

400

Discourses that devalue ELLs home language and culture seeing them as a problem

What are assimilationist discourses?

400

A model for school improvement and for identifying students in need of special education involving 3 tiers of instructional support and intervention

What is response to intervention?

500

A term used to capture the broad range of students who are bi/multilingual or who are learning through more than one language

What is a multilingual learner?

500

Discourses that recognize ELLs home languages as a rich resource for helping them learn academic content 

What are pluralist discourses?