When children start to understand English they are able to follow one-step request that are given to them. For example, when the teacher walks with the little girl and tells her, “is that yours can you please clean it up,” and only point to the trash on the table she is demonstrating a request that has a contextual cue, which helps the child see her focus and she listens and follows through with the request by graving her trash and dumping it in the trash can. At this stage in development ELL children are able to understand request and direction in English with the support of contextual cue or without, they can accomplish a one-step task on their own demonstrating that they are developing their new language skills by being able to establish
