Treatment of CLD populations

Question 1

Train intervention agents to support which language?

Answer 1

L1

Question 2

What kinds of language skills transfer best across languages?

Answer 2

Strategies

Question 3

T/F: Bi-literacy is recommended.

Answer 3

TRUE, but it may not be feasible

Question 4

Consultation role:

Answer 4

• Reiterate / repeat
• Check & expand vocab
• Value native languages
• Encourage code-switching
• Ask questions
• Allow use of home language as a bridge to English
• Provide clear, repetitive, simplified input, along with more advanced forms

Question 5

Efforts to integrate home cultural, linguistic, and dialectal examples make a different. Such as..

Answer 5

• Book choices
• Use of folk tales
• Time pressure
• Individual vs. group expectations