homework so practice becomes important and fortifies their language learning in the meantime. When all things are considered, one reason for assignments and homework is to practice what’s been learned. You can be certain you are stretching out open doors for practice to your ELL students’ by being discerning of the phases of all students; that’s battling with English Language Learning Acquisitions and by deliberately giving both high level thinking and proper language learning tasks to help ELL…
As I grew up I learned two languages simultaneously, Spanish is my primary language and English is my secondary language. For me, I remember using English for school and Spanish for home. When I was younger I would have to go to my grandparent’s house to be pick up by the school bus everyday. As I arrived to school I knew that I would have to speak English to my teachers and friends because not all of them knew Spanish. In school they taught me the alphabet, shapes, colors and animal names.…
is doing well in my English class because I want to be confident when I write, understand when I read, and learn all that I can about reading and writing. When I turn in an essay, I want to be confident. I want my readers to be interested in what I am trying to say. I will have to prepare, revise, and practice. Preparing is one of the first steps to writing…
Ding, Ding, Ding a fresh day of of horribleness awaits. We need less school because it’s terrible and needs to be eradicated. Kids hate it, and for good reason too. Most of the stuff is unnecessary. To top it all off with whipped cream it separates families. Here are the reasons of why we should have less school. Any child that has since in mind loathes school. Everyday kids walk down the hall just to hear high schoolers holding down the trigger on swear machine gun. When kids are getting…
Introduction English is regarded as the most influential language globally, with more non-native speakers around the world than native speakers (Park and Wee, 2012). There are over 400 million speakers of English, and although there are a few languages with more speakers in the world, those languages owe their numbers to mother-tongue speakers. Whereas, English owes its prominence to how widely adopted it is in other countries, and the special status it enjoys in global affairs. Since the…
to the fact that she was forced to listen and speak only in English to a wide range of people on a daily basis. This experience made her step out of her comfort zone of speaking Spanish to most of the people she came in contact with. She quickly overcame her fear of “not being a well spoken English speaker”. Out of all of the years and semesters she spent in the classroom, the Disney College Program excelled her knowledge of English and gave her real life scenarios that she had to react in.…
Dreaming in Hindi “If you speak English, you have one world, if you speak Navajo, you have another world” (Rich 7). Being multilingual creates more opportunities, and in a sense, truly unveils a whole new world. Author Katherine Russell Rich discovers a brand new world when she decides to go to India to learn Hindi. Rich begins her dive into Hindi at a later age than educators normally recommend. A specific main idea she presents in Dreaming in Hindi is that there is a small period of time in…
Summary The English language learners (ELL) population has been and will be growing as time goes by; due to that reason teaching and instruction need to be suitable for all students including ELLs. In the article Teaching English language learners in the content areas by Joy Janzen, we can see how ELL students make 10.5% of the school population, and these same students are at a high risk of academic failure (Janzen, 2008). A very important factor about ELLs is that a vast majority of them have…
Importance of Bilingual Education “Research suggests that immigrant English learners score lower on standardized tests, graduate from high school at lower rates and drop out at higher rates than their native English-speaker peers” (Lee, par. 2). People from all over the world immigrate to America to find better opportunities such as employment and education. One of the many problems that immigrants and their children, have to overcome is the language barrier. Without language, the second…
in reading and math, every year, and demanding those test scores to go up each year (Webley, 2012). Some of these acts are the reason why our public school system is failing our second language learners, as well as our state of California, and even our country as a whole. If we continue to implement these laws and acts, the gap between second language learners and English speakers will…