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Second Language Acquisition & Academic Language Devlopment
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Teacher Action Plan part 2
Second Language Acquisition & Academic Language Devlopment
BICS vs CALPS
Three Pillars of Academic Language
The Iceberg theory
Three Key Factors That Impact SLA
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2 Major Challenges
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Teacher Action plan
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CALPS: Cognitive Academic Language Proficiency - It takes 5 to 7 years to develop. - It includes the content-specific language. -It is the language needed to undertake academic tasks in the classroom. -When it is developed in the first language, it contributes to the development in the second language.
BICS vs. CALPS
BICS: Basic Interpersonal Communication Skills - It takes 1 to 3 years to develop. - It is an everyday language for personal and social communication. - BICS is not necessarily related to academic success.
2. Emotional barriers: This is a challenge for teachers because many of their EB learners will feel frustrated if they can't master the language. This may lead to many of them giving up because they do not think they will master it well enough. This will affect their learning because they will not understand what they are learning in class.
Challenges
1. Language Barrier: This is a challenge for teachers because there is going to be students who have no knowledge of the language they have to learn. However, once they learn it, they still struggle because they may only understand the words they hear everyday and not the words they need to learn on class. This affects their ability to understand what is happening in class.
The impacts on SLA
+ Access to the Language: This impacts SLA because the more students hear a certain language, the better understanding they have of it. Having good access to the language they need to learn, allows them to know what they are learning and have the ability to communicate into different situations. + Cultural Background: This impacts SLA because every student will be different based on their cultural background. This means that they will each have a different reaction when learning something is a language that is foreign to them. The best way to get them to understand is by including their backgrounds so it is easy for them to understand. + Personality & Learning Style: This impacts SLA because students feel a certain way when it comes to learning and many of them grasp what they learn differently. Some students may not feel comfortable speaking out in class, while others may. In addition, some students have different ways on how they understand what is being taught, so the teacher has to be mindful of how they present the lesson. Ways to help these students is by not only including things that would encourage everyone to speak, but an adaptable lesson for the different learners.
2. Structured discussions: What this means is that the teacher will plan out a discussion to the students, but the discussion will be about a specific objective or topic.
Grade level & content area: 4th grade Reading
1. Sentence frames: What this means is that there is going to be pre-made sentences with blanks included. the students job is to fill in the blanks based on what the sentence is about.
Connection to SLA challenge: This whole plan of including these strategies and activity would help students who face language barriers. This would help them because they will be guided on how they should structure their sentences when it comes to the sentences frames practice. In addition, the discussion that would occur, would help these students learn more words, especially the complex one, because the students would mention the new words into their conversation. The K-W-L chart, would help the teacher know where the student specifically struggles in and think on how they could help them understand.
Grade level & content area: 4th grade Reading
Example Activity: The activity would be to have students create K-W-L charts, which would mention information about what they know, learned about, or wish they can learn more about. This would let the students see what they remember and also give the teacher feedback on what they could include in the future lesson.