Language proficiency

Chinese-speakers with limited English proficiencies. She incorporates both Cantonese and English in her daily instruction. A specific time is designated in which students focus solely on English language development. During this time, students participate in a wide range of literacy activities to reinforce important skills of writing, reading, speaking and listening. Ms. Tong uses a choral reading strategy in a whole group setting to support students language development and reading fluency. She…

Who would have known that the language of Native Americans, created hundreds of years before the founding of our nation, would prove to be one of America's greatest secret weapons? The Japanese cracked every code that the Army and Navy came up with, but not the Navajo code. Navajo is a spoken language handed down orally from generation to generation. The Code Talkers created a system of native words to represent characters of the English alphabet so that they could spell out English words that…

sounds in spoken words as well as the ability to manipulate these sounds. She has an underlying difficulty with phonological processing speed indicating that she has a problem with her verbal working memory, her ability to retrieve and articulate language quickly. The awareness of sound structure underpins literacy skills. TR also has problems with her speed of visual processing which affects her reading and writing speeds and her ability to identify errors when proof reading. In addition, TR’s…

Before reading this text, I will meet with my ELL students to develop lesson plan more specific than the rest of the group may need. I know that being able to summarize will help ELLs with reading, so I know this activity will be a great activity as they can draw and write what they read about the story. The students will be able to draw the main events in the story according to the timeline (boxes) of events they construct on their worksheet. If the ELLs struggled with reading, then there is…

becoming increasingly more diverse, and there are more students from different cultural backgrounds speaking a multitude of languages. Many of these students will have parents who are native speakers of non-English languages who are faced with the dilemma to either teach their child in two languages during early childhood, one being English or raise him or her to speak only one language, English. Assessing whether there are positive or negative correlations between bilingualism in early…

common in cross-language priming (Duyck, 2005; Kroll & Stewart, 1990; Schoonbaert et al., 2007; Chen & Ng, 1989; de Groot & Nas, 1991; Keatley et al. 1994; Schwanenflugel & Rey 1986; Basnight-Brown & Altarriba, 2007). Semantic priming studies offer an investigation of the relationships between two different lexical structures conveying the same meaning (e.g., gato and cat both have the same meaning but are two different forms of representation for this meaning). When a second language is…

is a large topic in the linguistic and academic world. I have researched the benefits, usages, and learning’s of codeswitching from African American Vernacular English to Standard English in a classroom. Codeswitching is the use of more than one language or dialect in a single stretch of discourse, it may occur in two separate clauses, or when speakers switch dialects in the same clause. I have delved through many different journals, books, and articles to shuffle through the opinions of…

English Language Teaching over the years has undergone many changes. With the focus shifting to communicative competence and learning centred approach, English courses have become more needs oriented. This change, however, is not visible in every English language course. Some courses are yet to reflect the communicative value of language teaching. They look like courses on grammar where the focus is on teaching the form and not on the communicative use of English. The situation becomes more…

social and economic opportunities as they move into adulthood. There is one glaring impediment to realizing the aims of bilingual education: children who are placed into these programs are less likely to be transitioned from foreign language instruction to English language instruction. Children are being segregated into bilingual education curriculums indefinitely; which creates a disparity in terms of quality and access to education. This…

development. Children’s knowledge of two language systems results in a more analytical orientation to language. Bilingual kids have two ways to describe the world and have more flexible perception and interpretation. Most education programs for emergent bilinguals are based on the fact that English only should be used. The pullout ESL approach continues to be the program of choice in the U.S. While research shows that it takes 5-7 years for ELLs to develop proficiency in academic English, many…