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?
Not exact matches
There is a difference
between learned knowledge and
acquired knowledge (in
language, think of learning French in high school vs.
acquiring a native
language).
-- Discover what eurythmy reveals about human development — Work your way through the development of the child by means of exercises appropriate to each developmental phase — See how the Waldorf curriculum comes to life through movement and gesture — Learn about the interplay
between eurythmy and academic experiences —
Acquire the
language and understanding to talk about eurythmy to Waldorf parents in a valuable way — Work, play, laugh, and have fun!
From the moment of birth humans possess the capacity to make distinctions
between speakers of their native
language and others, which helps understand how infants and young children are tuned to quickly
acquire the knowledge of their society and adopt to their cultural environment,» said Dr. Marno.
«By the end of the third year of life, the average bilingual child uses two words for most concepts in his or her vocabulary, so young bilingual children gradually
acquire more experience in switching
between languages,» says Poulin - Dubois.
Assuming that all students leave high school fully fluent in English, these considerations suggest that the optimal choice of
language acquisition program depends on a tradeoff
between acquiring curricular skills on the one hand and accumulating
language deficits on the other.
They build their vocabulary,
acquire conceptual knowledge, learn about letter - sound relationships and the relationship
between oral and written
language, and practice the skills necessary to become automatic and fluent readers who can tackle the more specialized and technical texts of secondary reading (Chall, 1983; Chall & Jacobs, 1996; Jacobs, 2000).
«I think we find above all our poverty is definitely still an issue for the performance of our students, and the
acquiring of a second
language, our English
language learners... but the gap
between our [English
language learners] and our non-English
language learners is still there,» Perez said.
The intricate work moves
between writing, image, and pattern, and speaks to the fragmented way in which we
acquire information and experience
language in today's world.