Differentiated instruction For second language learners, students of varying reading skill, students with learning disabilities, and younger learners
Anticipation guides can be completed orally. The number of statements can be modified to suit learner's needs. Teachers may assign different reading passages about the same topic based upon reading skills. Color code columns so that the child can clearly tell the difference between the "before" and "after" column. Use simple sentences so that the student focuses on the content, rather than understanding the sentence. Example: "Ringworm and athlete's foot are caused by fungi" to "Fungi causes ringworm and athlete's foot."
The foreign language-learning environment will always be a formidable space for provocations and explorations. Acquiring a language is not solely limited to learning a new set of vocabulary and gra...
A gang of kids find a strange house with an overgrown garden where they play. Only once do they meet the man who lives there, a dead-beat alcoholic with a free and…
A case for mother tongueThe New Age OnlineLinguistics lecturer at Fort Hare University Zoliswa Mali says languages cannot survive and develop if their speakers do not value them. She says it is important to endorse and speak mother tongue languages.
Eurasiatic languages from Portugal to Siberia form 'superfamily' with root in southern Europe 15,000 years ago, scientists claim (European and Asian languages traced back to single mother tongue http://t.co/H5jzcvNVAv...
The theme this year for United Nations International Mother Language day is “Mother tongue instruction and inclusive education”. It highlights the importance of mother tongue as part of the right to education and encourages its member states to promote instruction and education in the mother tongue.
International Mother Language Day has been observed every year since February 2000 to promote linguistic and cultural diversity and multilingualism. The date represents the day in 1952 when students demonstrating for recognition of their language, Bangla, as one of the two national languages of the then Pakistan, were shot and killed by police in Dhaka, the capital of what is now Bangladesh.
DSCE-Annual Graduate Symposium II- Sept 2006. Multilingualism is in, monolingualism is out. A monolingual brain is a dormant multilingual brain. Web-based lear…
The relationship between digital game play and second language (L2) learning is a particularly tricky issue in East Asia. Though there is an emerging presence of Chinese online games, many more young people are playing the English- or Japanese-language versions of the most popular commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) video games. In other words, most Chinese gamers are playing L2 digital games in their leisure time. Informed by research on out-of-class L2 learning, this paper discusses findings from an exploratory study investigating L2 gaming and learning practices in young people’s everyday lives. Drawing on rich data from gaming sessions, stimulated recall, focus group discussion, individual interviews and online discussion forums, this paper argues that gamers exercise autonomy by managing their gameplay both as leisure and learning practices in different dimensions (location, formality, locus of control, pedagogy and trajectory). At the same time, gameplay-as-learning practices are supported by wider communities of digital gamers who take on roles as language teachers and advisers. The paper suggests that activities in these dimensions mediated learning autonomously and from community, and discusses the research and pedagogical implications for L2 gaming and learning.
What can economists learn from linguists? Behavioral economist Keith Chen introduces a fascinating pattern from his research: that languages without a concept for the future -- "It rain tomorrow," instead of "It will rain tomorrow" -- correlate strongly with high savings rates. Read more about Chen’s explorations »
***Re-posted with permission from the author, Alison Yang. Original post on the Collaborative Learner Blog. “Can students inquire in a foreign language?” This question is asked very frequently amo...
Mother Tongue: Giving My Son the Gift of Language and Longing Huffington Post Sam and I are on our usual Friday morning date. We spend two hours at the children's museum, then we head down the street to Sam's favorite pizza place.
What did our ancient ancestors sound like? Between approximately 4,500 and 2,500 B.C, the ancestors of much of Europe and Asia once spoke the same mother tongue, a language referred to as Proto-Indo-European, or PIE.
New Internationalist (blog) Sign language is our rightful mother tongue New Internationalist (blog) British Sign Language (BSL), for example, has only around 1,000 deaf children who use it 'to some extent', from a potential of approximately 42,000...
The information and advice on this page was written for FIS teachers in advance of the visit to the school of Professor J. Cummins. Cummins is one of the world’s leading authorities on bilingual education and second language acquisition. Mainstream teachers who have a knowledge of his theories and act on his advice will be in a much stronger position to help the ESL students in their classes.
Ever wonder why you can't figure out when and where to stick a comma? It's probably because commas, by far, have more rules and applications than any other punctuation mark. But why do so many people use the semicolon incorrectly? Comparatively, it should be one of the easiest punctuation marks to master. And why doesn't anybody seem to use the en dash?
Danish writer Mikael Wulff and cartoon artist Anders Morgenthaler – the creative duo known as Wumo – has created a brilliant series of graphs that illustrate some of the basic painful truths of everyday life in the Western world. Their graphs and diagrams are snarky and sarcastic but, for ...
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