1. Middle School Teacher (Video 5, Maime): Interacting with an ELL student who is at Emergence (early production) Stage is really hard. The student uses short phrases to express herself, but it seems that she understands more than she speaks. Here the teacher reads a pretty basic level book for the middle school student. While she reads, she explains any crucial word that the student doesn’t understand. She uses her thumb to act out ‘in’ and ‘out’. She knows that the action of her thumb will clarify meaning and differences of ‘in’ and ‘out’. Then, she makes the student to read the book, and the student accepts to do so. At the end, she has her to fill out a work sheet about the vocabulary that the student has just learned. In this example,
