Loa's LATA 2018 PowerPoint
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Why are effective instructional strategies so critical for our ELLs?
ELLs struggle to comprehend academic content in mainstream classes. With various languages, cultures, motivations and learning styles affecting both language and content acquisition, the only factor teachers can control is quality of instruction.
This website helps to support inclusive instruction for our ELLs. You will find resources on the Sheltered Instruction Observation Protocol (SIOP) as well as examples of interactive strategies and scaffolding that can get our ELLs using language in meaningful ways in mainstream classrooms.
This website helps to support inclusive instruction for our ELLs. You will find resources on the Sheltered Instruction Observation Protocol (SIOP) as well as examples of interactive strategies and scaffolding that can get our ELLs using language in meaningful ways in mainstream classrooms.
Contextual Factors in SLA
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BICS and CALP
Strategic Teaching and Learning Guided by the 5 Principles
Five research-based principles of second language instruction should form the basis for the education of International Students in Canadian contexts. Teachers can use the five principles and specific teaching and learning strategies to accelerate the learning process, promote academic achievement, and foster academic language acquisition (Levine, Smallwood, & Haynes, 2012a, 2012b).
Teaching by these principles is helpful for ALL of our students, but is essential for ELLs
Principle 1. Focus on academic language, literacy, and vocabulary: Teach the language and language skills required for content learning.
Principle 2. Link background knowledge and culture to learning: Explicitly plan and incorporate ways to engage students in thinking about and drawing from their life experiences and prior knowledge.
Principle 3. Increase comprehensible input and language output: Make meaning clear through visuals, demonstrations, and other means and give students multiple opportunities to produce language.
Principle 4. Promote classroom interaction: Engage students in using English to accomplish academic tasks.
Principle 5. Stimulate higher order thinking and the use of learning strategies: Explicitly teach thinking skills and learning strategies to develop English language learners as effective, independent learners.
Teaching by these principles is helpful for ALL of our students, but is essential for ELLs
Principle 1. Focus on academic language, literacy, and vocabulary: Teach the language and language skills required for content learning.
Principle 2. Link background knowledge and culture to learning: Explicitly plan and incorporate ways to engage students in thinking about and drawing from their life experiences and prior knowledge.
Principle 3. Increase comprehensible input and language output: Make meaning clear through visuals, demonstrations, and other means and give students multiple opportunities to produce language.
Principle 4. Promote classroom interaction: Engage students in using English to accomplish academic tasks.
Principle 5. Stimulate higher order thinking and the use of learning strategies: Explicitly teach thinking skills and learning strategies to develop English language learners as effective, independent learners.
