teaching content to english language learners
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Teaching Content to English Language Learners
3 Goals for Content-Area Instruction
Content Goals—“conceptual learning of knowledge and skills required by the subject matter”
Language Goals—“address learning the precise vocabulary words and sentence patterns needed to communicate content”
General Skills— “means attaining study skills that promote both language and content learning”
“Communicate in the language of the subject and about the subject (construct meaning)”(Hernandez 2003)
Excellent Resource
Teach Strategies for Studying
MetacognitiveWhat will help me learn?
o What do I know?o What do I need to
know?o How can I divide
projects into doable segments?
CognitivePractice
o Memorizing techniqueso Flash cardso Note-taking
SocialCooperative Learning
o Homeworko Studying
Combining Strategies
Think-Alouds and ModelingPurpose—the step-by-step process involved in completing many types of activities
How does your classmate’s brain workActual examples
Students Share Think-Alouds and Modeling
Your student correctly infers information from text EXAMPLE: “That would be a risky company to invest in.”
ASK: Where did you find the information that helped you with that?
Your student solves a complex problem. ASK: How did you figure out that answer?Your student presents an informed opinion on a topic. ASK: What information led you to this opinion?Your student gets a good grade on a test. ASK: How exactly did you study for this test.
Language Goals
Content-obligatory—language essential to an understanding of content material
Content-compatible—language that can be taught naturally within the course of teaching content, language that must be practiced (academic word list) (grammar) (conversational)According to Snow, Met and Genesee (1989)
Stock Market—Finance Content
1. New York Stock Exchange2. NASDAQ3. S&P 5004. Bulls and Bears5. soared, plummeted, flattened, leveled
out, rebounded, recovered, forecast6. present perfect, past, future, conditional
Which is content-obligatory? Which is content compatible?
Content-Compatible—Functions & Forms
Example: Investigates the Fall of Beach BallsFunctions needed to discuss the article?SummarizeInterpret/ReactDescribingForms needed to summarize, interpret, use vocabulary?Complex SentencesCause and Effect (due to, as a result of, led to)Metaphorical/content-compatible vocabularyReading Log Form
Academic Resource:A Conceptual Framework for the Integration of Language and Content in Second/Foreign Language InstructionMarguerite Ann Snow, Myriam Met, Fred Genesee
Obligatory Compatible
launchadvertising campaignsocial mediacompetitorsmarket sharetagline: “Think Different”tweak vs. revamp
collocations differentiated fromfixed phrases “keep up with demand” “ramp up” “have a hit on their hands”comparatives sleeker, smoother, more powerful, supreme (from car desciptions)
Marketing Obligatory & Compatible Language
Marketing Lesson
VIDEO 4 P's
Orabrush (promotion) Subway (price)Food Truck (place)Tee Shirts into Blankets (product)
Content-Obligatory: promotion, price, place, product
Content-Compatible: launch, debut, roll outbreakthrough, innovative, edgy, cutting edge
4 P’s exercise
ZhuZhu Pets
Resources for Content PowerPoints
Free Presentations:ppt format & interactive
Scaffolding
“in order to learn a person must be active, and the activity must be partly familiar and partly new, so that attention can be focused on useful changes and knowledge can be increased.
Van der Lier (1996) as cited in Gibbons (2003)ed”
Too much or too little teacher talk??
Too close a match between “teacher talk” and students’, ss won’t learn enough.
Too great a distance between “teacher talk” and students’, ss won’t understand enough.
Interaction between teacher and learner is key. (Cummins 1996 as cited in Gibbons 2003)
Activate learners’ background knowledge in the area of study:
KWL What do I know? What do I want to know? What will I learnKWL Worksheets
Viral Marketing KWL Worksheet
KWhat I Know
WWhat I Want To Learn
LWhat I Have Learned
Teaching Content
Finding the medium Current News/ArticlesMARKETING: Viral MarketingCBS NEWS Story video and transcript “Old Spice”United Breaks GuitarsEvian BabiesFINANCE: Tour of Wall Street Worksheets Practice—Virtual Stock Market Brainpop for stocks and sharesREAL-LIFE examples Warren Buffett
Graphic Organizers
Link to a variety of graphic organizers
Concept/Event Map—connects concepts and events good for current events
Additional Academic Resources
Mediating Language Learning: Teacher Interactions with ESL Students in a Content-Based Classroom Pauline Gibbons
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