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March 15, 2012

The Loft

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What is EAL?

How does EAL work at YIS?

What can parents do to help their child?

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English as an Additional Language

Support students

Develop English proficiency

Access the curriculum

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homelanguageFirst language

Home language

Mother tongue

Native language

additionallanguage Secondlanguage or anotherlanguage different fromthe home language

4 Language Skills:

Listening

Speaking

Reading

Writing

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LISTENING: Recognition of sounds, words,sentencesunderstanding

SPEAKING: Producing words, simple to complex sentences

READING: Recognizing symbols have meaning

WRITING: Producing text

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A student will be at different stages withgaps in certain skills.

LISTENING

Understands

some words

or sentences

But confusessounds

different from

home

language

SPEAKING:

simple

sentences

Cannot

producesounds

different

from home

language

READING:

Remembers

some details

Cannot

understand

some words

WRITING: likes

to produce

simple text but

has gaps in

knowing languagerules

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Age (learners stage of development)motivation

level of literacy in home language language background of child

parents literacy background feelings towards English learning style

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-playground language

-everyday language

-face-to-face interpersonal communication

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COGNITIVE=

Thinking at

higher levels in

English

ACADEMIC=

more technical

and abstractsubjects in

English

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ELC gr 2: Immersion in mainstream classes

Gr. 3-5:Co-teaching once a week on language focusPullout 4 lessons a week Referral process Language targets

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Focus on understanding NOTmemorization

CHECK class blogs and be informedabout the units of inquiry

Explain concepts in your home language

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MORE is NOT BETTEROutside school activitiesExercise sheets

Read TOGETHER in your home languageand discuss by asking questions

Provide LOTS of reading materials in yourhome language and check out books fromthe library

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BUILD new knowledge not just repeatfacts

Talk to your child to process their ideasand extend conversation (recast, extend,

label)

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Understand the writing processPlanningDrafting

ConferringRefining: revise, edit, proofreadPublish

BIG IDEAS first before SMALL PARTSDelay editing to avoid writers block

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Should parents stop speaking thehome language and only speak in

English?

Should children write sentencesagain and again in order to master

the content?

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Can you recommend book titlesfor my child to read?

Is it okay if my child learns manylanguages at the same time?

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We moved to different countriesevery year and my childs

education was in new languages

each year. Is this okay?