Promoting Communication Flashcards
Order for Sheltered Instruction (8)
- Lesson prep
- Building background knowledge
- Comprehensible input
- Strategies
- Interaction
- Practice and Application
- Lesson Delivery
- Review and Assessment
Acquisition Learning Hypothesis
the optimal way a language is learned is through natural communications – making learning authentic.
sheltered instruction
teachers integrate language and content instruction in order to make content more comprehensible – CONTENT OBJECTIVE AND LANGUAGE OBJECTIVE
Total Response Signals (TRS)
cue students can use to indicate they are ready to respond to questions or ready to move on – thumbs up if you’re ready
linguistic domain vs affective domain
language skills vs emotional skills
Nativist Theory
language depends on innate biological mechanism called the language aquisition device
Concept Attainment Model (Bruner)
an indirect instruction strategy that uses structured inquiry processl students figure out the attributes of a group has already been formed by the teacher
Natural Approach (Krashen)
tend to have emphasis on a low-anxiety, natural context for language acquisition with a goal of maximum comprehensible input
Language Experience Approach (LEA)
promotes reading and writing through the use of personal experiences and oral language
CALPS
Cognitive Academic Language Proficiency Skills are formal, textbook language used in academic situations
CALLA Approach
Teachers explicitly teach learning strategies and have students apply them to instructional tasks to increase CALP
word analysis
breaking down words into morphemes (the smallest unit of meaning)
Morpheme
a combination of sounds that has meaning in speech or writing and cannot be divided into smaller parts – cat, laugh, box
DIphthong
one vowel sound made by the combination of two vowel sounds – ou, au
Acculturation
when one culture TAKES ON SOME of the cultural traits of another culture
Phonemic awareness
the ability to hear, identify, and re-create individual sounds in spoken words
phoneme
the smallest individual sounds in a word – bit has 3 phonemes, b, i, t.
schema
background knowledge
grapheme
a written letter or a combination of letters that represent a single sound. ph makes the sounds f
affective filter
emotional influence on learning
realia
objects used in everyday life brought into the classroom the enhance instruction
consonant digraph
two consonants that make a single consonant sounds when together in a word
s and h = sh
Total Physical Response (TPR)
coordination of language and physical movement
BICS
Basic Interpersonal Communicative Skills are casual, everyday language used in personal conversation
