language experience approach (lea)
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LANGUAGE EXPERIENCE APPROACH (LEA)
Principles and Process
Underlying Philosphies
• Students’ prior experience used as bridge to new ideas, concepts
• Vocabulary, grammatical structures first experienced within the existing knowledge base (schemata) of learners
• Developed for native English-speaking students to provide support for initial reading experiences
• To teach literary processes and literary functions.
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• Invented spelling and incomplete sentences allowable
• Emphasizes the power of student as creator of meaning and shows writing as powerful source of communication
PROCESS
• In initial stages student dictates oral narratives
• Teacher (or aide) writes down the student’s words
• Resulting text read back to student
• As skills develop, student writes own script and read to classmates and/or teacher
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