Semantic Development Evidence of Development. Semantics is the study of meaning in the relationship between words and it is what gives native speakers the ability to understand that certain meanings follow from other meanings and to infer and extend new meanings for certain words or phrases. In Ariza’s article, he explains how cultural and individual experiences contribute to meaning, which is the basis of semantics (Ariza, 2014b). Greg’s individual and cultural experiences are a lot different than mine and therefore he understands meanings of words differently than I do. However, ESL students have to learn the ability to understand and infer new meanings from other words, but that is very difficult. I have seen this difficulty with Greg
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Even though he is quiet, he is a very strong speaker and he is also a very strong reader. However, he needs improvement in his writing and his listening. Greg responds really well to drawing things and interpreting images. Therefore, I would recommend that Greg use illustrations to come up with stories or explain his readings and because he has trouble writing have him explain out loud what the pictures mean (Gottleib, 2006). I would also recommend that to improve his listening, Greg should listen to audio books or you can orally tell him a story and he should fill in graphic organizers with pictures that summarize the story (Gottleib, 2006). It would also be beneficial to give him brief explanation in both Spanish, the home language, and English so that he does not tune out while one or the other is being spoken (Goldenberg, …show more content…
For example, he always had difficulty noticing the pattern in words ending in “ing”, “er”, or the silent “e”. Therefore, I would recommend using scaffolding strategies to help identify patterns in spelling. I would give him a worksheet with sentences using words ending in “ing” and leave off their endings so he has to fill in the endings. As he became more proficient in that, I would take out whole words and give him a word bank at first so he has to fill in the missing words (Gottleib, 2006). It would also help his writing and spelling if he reviewed charts of cognates so he could use his home language, Spanish, to help him understand spelling similar words in English (Goldenberg,
Even though he is quiet, he is a very strong speaker and he is also a very strong reader. However, he needs improvement in his writing and his listening. Greg responds really well to drawing things and interpreting images. Therefore, I would recommend that Greg use illustrations to come up with stories or explain his readings and because he has trouble writing have him explain out loud what the pictures mean (Gottleib, 2006). I would also recommend that to improve his listening, Greg should listen to audio books or you can orally tell him a story and he should fill in graphic organizers with pictures that summarize the story (Gottleib, 2006). It would also be beneficial to give him brief explanation in both Spanish, the home language, and English so that he does not tune out while one or the other is being spoken (Goldenberg, …show more content…
For example, he always had difficulty noticing the pattern in words ending in “ing”, “er”, or the silent “e”. Therefore, I would recommend using scaffolding strategies to help identify patterns in spelling. I would give him a worksheet with sentences using words ending in “ing” and leave off their endings so he has to fill in the endings. As he became more proficient in that, I would take out whole words and give him a word bank at first so he has to fill in the missing words (Gottleib, 2006). It would also help his writing and spelling if he reviewed charts of cognates so he could use his home language, Spanish, to help him understand spelling similar words in English (Goldenberg,