An acquired language needs to be repeated in a various number of guises before it can be actively used by the student.
This syllabus can be easily adapted for individual classes while retaining an overall structure aimed at helping students
acquire the language they need to communicate.
Not exact matches
One does not grow conceptually in the ways
needed to discern and respond to God simply by
acquiring abilities and capacities related to «grace,» «wrath,» and «glory,» and the like, as they are generally used in ordinary
language in one's society or as they may be generally used in the various world religions.
CERN's official
languages are English and French, so if you want to work there you'll
need a good working knowledge of one, and it's desirable that you have a basic knowledge of the other (or demonstrate a willingness to
acquire it... CERN runs English and French
language lessons for its employees).
Dec. 4, 2 p.m. ET: Common Core State Standards: Literacy and English -
Language Learners As educators begin putting the common core into classroom practice, what instructional strategies will they
need to bridge the gap between
acquiring language and truly mastering academic content for ELLs?
«We've been blessed with numerous grants that have brought us state - of - the - art technology for our math and science classrooms,» Green said, «but we're in
need of more technology tools for
language arts and social studies, where external funding isn't always easy to
acquire.»
This increased difficulty has two components, one stemming from the
need to play catch - up as a student gets older — fluency for a 6th grader spans more
language skills than does fluency for a 1st grader — the other stemming from a decreasing facility for
acquiring language, as implied by the sensitive period hypothesis.
Essential to sheltered instruction are teacher willingness and capacity to learn about and incorporate the prior knowledge of ELLs into instruction, to understand second
language acquisition and address the linguistic
needs of ELLs, to deliver comprehensible yet rigorous input, and to use spiraling and scaffolding techniques whereby every piece of information learned and every skill
acquired provides the next - level substructure for building higher - order knowledge.
SELP 2, a newly revised assessment of
language proficiency for ELL students, helps to ensure that students from non-English-speaking backgrounds
acquire the skills they
need to succeed in school.
To
acquire language fluency, students
need opportunities to produce real, purposeful
language and to direct the course of conversations and arguments.
Similarly, a practitioner working in Portuguese or American Sign
Language must have
acquired at least a minimum working knowledge of the
language sufficient to grasp what a client is articulating and sufficient to communicate what they
need to say to the client.