The Road to English
description
Transcript of The Road to English
![Page 2: The Road to English](https://reader035.fdocuments.in/reader035/viewer/2022062301/56814625550346895db3315d/html5/thumbnails/2.jpg)
Silence is the enemy of education.
Talk with your children!
![Page 3: The Road to English](https://reader035.fdocuments.in/reader035/viewer/2022062301/56814625550346895db3315d/html5/thumbnails/3.jpg)
Goal:
Improve the learning and acquisition of English
![Page 4: The Road to English](https://reader035.fdocuments.in/reader035/viewer/2022062301/56814625550346895db3315d/html5/thumbnails/4.jpg)
ObjectivesParticipants will:
• Increase understanding of what is a language.• Understand the dimensions of the English
language.• Be motivated to use daily activities that
promote full proficiency in English.• Become familiar with resources they can use
to help with the education of their children.
![Page 5: The Road to English](https://reader035.fdocuments.in/reader035/viewer/2022062301/56814625550346895db3315d/html5/thumbnails/5.jpg)
Agenda
• LEP Students or English Learners (ELs)– Alumnos aprendices de inglés
• Language: What is it? exercise
• Acquisition of a language• Activities that promote acquisition• Questions• Evaluation
![Page 6: The Road to English](https://reader035.fdocuments.in/reader035/viewer/2022062301/56814625550346895db3315d/html5/thumbnails/6.jpg)
Exercise What is language?
• Think - Write • Discuss in pairs• Share
![Page 7: The Road to English](https://reader035.fdocuments.in/reader035/viewer/2022062301/56814625550346895db3315d/html5/thumbnails/7.jpg)
Who are LEP Students* in the USA?
• 5 million LEP in US, 1.6 million in California, and 144,000 in Arizona, for example.
• They lack full proficiency in English.• 84% of LEP in California speak Spanish.• They are 25 percent of all enrollment in
California schools.
- - - - - - - - -* English learners (ELs)
![Page 8: The Road to English](https://reader035.fdocuments.in/reader035/viewer/2022062301/56814625550346895db3315d/html5/thumbnails/8.jpg)
English is needed for:
• Jobs• Technical training• University education• Complete participation in this
democracy
![Page 9: The Road to English](https://reader035.fdocuments.in/reader035/viewer/2022062301/56814625550346895db3315d/html5/thumbnails/9.jpg)
Why study?
• Personal advantages• Social advantages• An enormous increase in wealth:
– Lifetime income increases one million dollars
with a university degree.– Many good non-university careers require
higher education: contractor, supervisor of construction workers, etc.
![Page 10: The Road to English](https://reader035.fdocuments.in/reader035/viewer/2022062301/56814625550346895db3315d/html5/thumbnails/10.jpg)
There are resources for study:
• In 2003 there was a total of $7.345 billion per year available in grants and loans.
• Just in California:– $ 662 million were available– Contact: California Student Aid
Commission
– Grants up to $9,700 per year
![Page 11: The Road to English](https://reader035.fdocuments.in/reader035/viewer/2022062301/56814625550346895db3315d/html5/thumbnails/11.jpg)
Language
• What is language? What does it mean: – to KNOW a language?
• What is ELD? (ELD = English language development)
• Learn vs. acquire a language• Standards for ELD ELA • How to ensure that there are optimal
conditions to promote acquisition of English.
![Page 12: The Road to English](https://reader035.fdocuments.in/reader035/viewer/2022062301/56814625550346895db3315d/html5/thumbnails/12.jpg)
Dimensions of a language
• BICS– Basic Interpersonal Communication Skills
• Examples
• CALP – Cognitive Academic Language Proficiency
• Examples
![Page 13: The Road to English](https://reader035.fdocuments.in/reader035/viewer/2022062301/56814625550346895db3315d/html5/thumbnails/13.jpg)
Complete proficiency in English requires much
effort:• Student must master BICS and CALP.
• Upon enrollment in school (at the age of 5), an English speaker understands about 13,000 words and uses between 6,000 and 10,000 words.
… this is similar to the vocabulary of speakers of other languages.
![Page 14: The Road to English](https://reader035.fdocuments.in/reader035/viewer/2022062301/56814625550346895db3315d/html5/thumbnails/14.jpg)
...English requires much...• Normal growth in language includes
acquisition of between 2,000 and 3,000 words per year.
• A High School graduate controls about 40,000 words.
• Teachers can directly provide between 300 – 400 words per year. – And the rest, where does it come from? – Direct teaching/learning provides only about 13 % of the total needed
(400 X 13 years = 5,200).
![Page 15: The Road to English](https://reader035.fdocuments.in/reader035/viewer/2022062301/56814625550346895db3315d/html5/thumbnails/15.jpg)
What we don’t learn is school we acquire from:
• Interactions with others– speaking
• Interactions with text – reading
![Page 16: The Road to English](https://reader035.fdocuments.in/reader035/viewer/2022062301/56814625550346895db3315d/html5/thumbnails/16.jpg)
But a language is much more than just the words!
• 5 components: – comprehension, vocabularyvocabulary, fluency,
pronunciation, grammar
• 4 aspects: – listen, speak, read, write
![Page 17: The Road to English](https://reader035.fdocuments.in/reader035/viewer/2022062301/56814625550346895db3315d/html5/thumbnails/17.jpg)
It also includes…
• Linguistic competencies: – grammatical, sociolinguistic,
conversational, strategic
• Abilities to use:– Notions and functions: authentic use
of the language
![Page 18: The Road to English](https://reader035.fdocuments.in/reader035/viewer/2022062301/56814625550346895db3315d/html5/thumbnails/18.jpg)
For language development you need both:
•Acquisition– By means of conversation and
reading
•And Learning– Through formal study
![Page 19: The Road to English](https://reader035.fdocuments.in/reader035/viewer/2022062301/56814625550346895db3315d/html5/thumbnails/19.jpg)
ELD Standards
• Precursor or on-ramp to reach the ELA (English language arts) standards.
• Form the base for the CELDT– California English Language
Development Test
![Page 20: The Road to English](https://reader035.fdocuments.in/reader035/viewer/2022062301/56814625550346895db3315d/html5/thumbnails/20.jpg)
CELDT, combined with tests of the use of English should guide
strategies for:• ELD instruction
• Content instruction (language and literature, mathematics, sciences, etc.), using:
• SDAIE - Specially Designed Academic Instruction in English• Native language • Mainstream instruction
![Page 21: The Road to English](https://reader035.fdocuments.in/reader035/viewer/2022062301/56814625550346895db3315d/html5/thumbnails/21.jpg)
Beginner {EL}
Intermediate {EL}
Advanced
Early Advanced
______________________________________________________________________________
Reclassified FEP}
Early Intermediate{EL}
Advanced _________________________________________________________________________________
Proficient
Basic
Below Basic
Far Below Basic
ELD and ELA English Language and
literature
![Page 22: The Road to English](https://reader035.fdocuments.in/reader035/viewer/2022062301/56814625550346895db3315d/html5/thumbnails/22.jpg)
Parents can:
•Talk with our children•Tell them stories•Relate family history•Sing•Read stories
– Our child can read to us...
![Page 23: The Road to English](https://reader035.fdocuments.in/reader035/viewer/2022062301/56814625550346895db3315d/html5/thumbnails/23.jpg)
...we can also:
• Share– poems, rhymes– riddles– jokes
• Ask about what they are doing in school
• Ask open-ended questions-- examples
![Page 24: The Road to English](https://reader035.fdocuments.in/reader035/viewer/2022062301/56814625550346895db3315d/html5/thumbnails/24.jpg)
...also:• Give chores at home and talk with them
about details of the work:– Teach how to wash clothes, how to fix a toy,
beat an egg, prepare the batter for tortillas, how to toast bread, etc..
• Play board games and SPEAK about what we are doing, how, and why…– Examples: checkers, dice games,
dominoes etc. – Do you have other examples?
![Page 25: The Road to English](https://reader035.fdocuments.in/reader035/viewer/2022062301/56814625550346895db3315d/html5/thumbnails/25.jpg)
• Ask that our children teach us at least ONE new word in English every day.
• TALK about a program on television, examining details of time, plot, characters, and reasons for action or conflict.
![Page 26: The Road to English](https://reader035.fdocuments.in/reader035/viewer/2022062301/56814625550346895db3315d/html5/thumbnails/26.jpg)
When we talk with our children:
• We communicate love and affection.• We develop their intellectual and
linguistic capacities.• We guide them toward a productive
life.• We fulfill our responsibility to be our
children’s first teacher.
![Page 27: The Road to English](https://reader035.fdocuments.in/reader035/viewer/2022062301/56814625550346895db3315d/html5/thumbnails/27.jpg)
Schools should ensure an optimal environment for
language acquisition • Clearly understandable course designs.
• Rigorous courses that are monitored and implemented with consistency.
• Programs where language proficiency and academic needs of the students guide instruction.
![Page 28: The Road to English](https://reader035.fdocuments.in/reader035/viewer/2022062301/56814625550346895db3315d/html5/thumbnails/28.jpg)
• Frequent use of data and results of tests.
• A total commitment of the school district and all school staff to language development.
![Page 29: The Road to English](https://reader035.fdocuments.in/reader035/viewer/2022062301/56814625550346895db3315d/html5/thumbnails/29.jpg)
Talk with your children!
Silence is the enemy of education.
![Page 30: The Road to English](https://reader035.fdocuments.in/reader035/viewer/2022062301/56814625550346895db3315d/html5/thumbnails/30.jpg)
The road to English is long and difficult
•We must make an effort. • It requires much time. •The time passes better,
when we talk.•There are many benefits.
![Page 31: The Road to English](https://reader035.fdocuments.in/reader035/viewer/2022062301/56814625550346895db3315d/html5/thumbnails/31.jpg)
Summary
• Questions
• Evaluation
![Page 32: The Road to English](https://reader035.fdocuments.in/reader035/viewer/2022062301/56814625550346895db3315d/html5/thumbnails/32.jpg)
Resources• NCELA
– National Clearnighouse for English Language Acquistiion and Language Instructionhttp://www.ncela.gwu.edu/resfor/parents/espanol.htm
• Brochures of the Parent Institute (Fairfax Station, VA): [English and Spanish]– Lo que los padres pueden hacer en el hogar para ayudar a los
estudiantes con…• El vocabulario, La escritura, La lectura
• FAFSA en español – Financial aide for higher education
http://www.fafsa.ed.gov/scomplete013.htm
• META – Multicultural Education Training and Advocacy– Office (415) 546 – 6382, FAX: (415) 546 – 6363
• PIQUE – Parent Institute for Quality Education– http://www.piqe.org/– Office (858) 483-4499, FAX (858) 483-4646
![Page 33: The Road to English](https://reader035.fdocuments.in/reader035/viewer/2022062301/56814625550346895db3315d/html5/thumbnails/33.jpg)
For more informationNorm Gold Associates Sacramento, CA 95819 Many thanks to:
Parents, teachers and administrators in: Desert Sands USD, Hayward USD, Newport-Mesa USD,
Parlier USD, Sacramento City USD, Santa Ana USD, West Contra Costa USD.
California Department of Education, English Learner Accountability Unit
__________________________________________________________Norm Gold • www.normgoldassociates.com [email protected]
• (916) 731-4734
![Page 34: The Road to English](https://reader035.fdocuments.in/reader035/viewer/2022062301/56814625550346895db3315d/html5/thumbnails/34.jpg)
The kids will persevere and they will succeed!
Many thanks !