My article talks about when an ELL is acquiring a language they go throught a silent period of listening to the language around them. It is important to for a student to acquire the language by using it orally and listening. By participating in literacy-based conversations, the teacher is helping the student practice their oral skills while making meaning from the text to their lives. Incorporating listening in the school day is another concept for teaching. Having poems, or read alouds in the class help build the language for the ELL. Adapting teacher talk by talking more slowly and making the language more accessible is another way to help ELLS.
If you would like more information on these concepts follow the link to the article
http://www.alliance.brown.edu/tdl/elemlit/orallanguage.shtml
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I think it is very important as teachers to understand that ELL students go through a difficult time and may have a silent period. Teachers who don't understand may put the student through even more trauma than neccesary by forcing them to do work or even misinterpreting it as misbehavior.
ReplyDeleteAlso, I think poems and songs are very good to have in classrooms especially if there is an ELL student. It will give the student some feeling of inclusion because they will know the classroom song when it is time to sing it with the rest of the class.
I also stumbled upon this article and began summarizing it until I realized you had already done it. It was a great article and I completely agree that by incorporating listening everyday in the classroom we are benefiting our ESL students. We as teachers are responsible to help these students gain the language and these strategies are ways that will definitely help us!
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