It lies between what the student has been able to accomplish and what the student has yet to accomplish.
What is the zone of proximal development?
This is CALP, Cognitive Academic Language Proficiency.
What is the formal language used in academia?
The language a person needs in daily social interactions.
What is basic interpersonal communicative skills, BICS?
This behaviorist was interested in how humans change their behavior regarding language acquisition.
Who was B. F. Skinner?
The area where a child can show they are able to do something.
What is actual development?
The challenging part of CALP.
What is it is context-reduced, there are fewer nonverbal clues for the learner.=?
Examples of BICS.
What is conversational language needed for day-to-day living, including conversations with friends and informal interactions with acquaintances?
This behaviorist believed children learn language through classifying each part of speech categorically.
Who was NoamChomsky?
This is when a student has not yet mastered an ability but can with support.
What is potential development?
Examples of CALP.
What are scientific terminology and words not used ordinarily outside the classroom?
The meaning of "context embedded".
What is conversation s often face-to-face offering helpful feedback and cues to the listener such as facial expressions, gestures, and references to concrete objects?
This is breaking an activity into smaller and more manageable chunks.
What is scaffolding?
Examples of abstract language.
What are metaphors, similes, colloquial expressions, idioms?
The reason BICS is not cognitively demanding.
What is it is unspecialized, easy to understand, and simple in structure?
Tools used in scaffolding.
What are using visuals, previewing new information or vocabulary, review of prior information, and accessing prior knowledge?
The number of years it can take an ELL student to become proficient in CALP.
What is 7?
The amount of time a learner can develop BICS.
What is 6 months to 2 years?