The first phase of a four-year study found that English-learners in Project GLAD classrooms performed better on reading comprehension, vocabulary, and some writing tasks than their peers whose teachers did not use the instructional approach.
Project GLAD was one of the Department of Education's exceptional Academic Excellence projects for ELs in the 90s that has maintained successful results in many content-based instructional environments.
In a study of the Houston Independent School District, English-language learners in two-way dual-language programs had higher Spanish reading scores and consistently higher English performance in grade 5 than their ELL peers who were not in dual...
Most experts agree that the best way to learn a language is by immersing yourself in it. Now, with more sophisticated technology, another theory around lang
With a shortage of qualified teachers and fluency fading from the classroom, the school system, parents and experts are searching for more effective ways to teach the Spanish language.
The longer you have been teaching, the thicker your files are getting, but it is never too soon or too late to add to your pool of resources. You may already be familiar with the following w
When something is “lost in translation,” it could have been due to a simple mistake or due to the fact that one language was not quite able to capture the essence of a word's meaning in another language. This conflict is the idea behind New Zealand-based designer Anjana Iyer's “Found in Translation” series of images, which try to explain the meaning behind words in other languages that have no direct equivalent in English.
I have been meaning to get this up on the blog for quite a while. I would love to hear of any other links you may have. Please email me and let me know. Thanks! Lesson Ideas There are many sites o...
Student blogging provides opportunities for sharing, reflection, and ownership. With ELLs, blogs can provide deeper engagement and a public forum to demonstrate their developing skills.
In a world of spellcheck and texting abbreviations, few people want to take the time to learn about subjects, objects, and dangling modifiers. Besides, computers can fix our sentences for us. However, as anyone who's suffered an autocorrect embarrassment knows, computers don't always get it right. Language is a human tool and requires the insight of…
Teachers from Spain to bolster USD 501 bilingual programs Topeka Capital Journal Topeka's two bilingual elementary programs will receive much-appreciated reinforcements from Spain this year — seven teachers fluent in Spanish and English.
Last week, my classes all of a sudden became more challenging. Instead of teaching two separate classes of United States History to Intermediate English Language Learners, one double-block period o...
During librarian Dawn K. Wing's time as a high school ESL teacher years ago, she developed curricula that enabled English language learners to practice their English language skills across all modalities by reading and creating visual narratives.
A mini lecture on the foundations of ESL & Bilingual Teaching Methods. Much of this comes from Herrera & Murry's Text Mastering Mastering ESL & Bilingual ...
Herrera & Murry's [sic] text remains on the cutting edge for research-supported methodology positively impacting the academic achievement of English Learners (ELs).
Three observations regarding Tuzi's mini lecture comments:
1. At approx 8:02, the "L" in the LEP acronym is not correctly identified as "Limited" English Proficient / Proficiency.
2. At approx 36:00, Tuzi claims that the students left behind (in the NCLB Act) "…are generally the less important students." Interestingly, it was the NCLB Act that first required districts to be accountable for the cognitive academic learning achievement of ELs and other special needs students by including them in the assessment of learning outcomes. Prior to that time, there was little incentive to provide local funding support for special needs populations beyond limited state and federal grant allotments. This was one of the reasons why several civil rights organizations (i.e., LULAC, LaRaza, and the NAACP) have consistently supported the necessity for and extension of this Act.
3. Toward the end of the lecture, Tuzi conveys a more conservative (language learning) approach regarding EL methodology, which, at best, provides a philosophical balance to Herrera and Murry's content-based and bilingual advocacies.
The Web offers huge opportunities to improve any foreign language you’re learning, from news stories, blog posts, comments and all that content. So, find sites with your favourite topics and read them regularly. Phraseum will help you save and organize all useful sentences you come across while reading, in order to learn them later. You can organize your clips by tags (situation, meaning …) and personal categories (your projects, meetings …) You can also search for and re-save phrases that others have saved or discover phrases that match the topics of your interests in your Phrase feed.
Vocabulary builing tool with a web clipper that can be added to a browser for quick additions to a tagged phrasebook - looks like a very interesting use of browser technology that promotes learner autonomy
Excellent idea! A fantastic tool to build up a collection of useful chunks or phrases around topics, situations, etc.
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