Zusammenfassung der Ressource
wrong Approaches & Methods for ESL
- CALLA
- Cognitive
Social Models
of Learning
- Cooperative
Learning
- Key Focus: All students
responsible for completing
task within collaborative
environment
- Allows opportunity
for social language
development
- Used in Preparation
Phase of CALLA
- Identifiying prior
knowledge
- Literacy Across
the Curriculum
- Key Focus: incorporates
literacy and content
instruction into all
subject areas
- used to be known as
"Language Across the
Curriculum"
- Language
development should
be a focus of ALL
subject teachers
- Language Domains:
Listening, Speaking,
Reading, Writing
- Balanced
Reading
Approach
- Key Focus: Tailors reading
instructions to fit student
needs (according to how
they best respond)
- Example: Whole language learning vs. Phonics
- Balance by incorporating
reading passages along
with writing prompts
- Process
Writing
- Key Focus: Teach
students writing
process.
1.Planning/Thinking
2.Reflection 3.Revision
- Teachers model and create
classroom environment to
embody "writing workshop"
- Writing incorporated
into all subjects
- Language
Experience
Approach
- Key Focus: Connecting
background knowledge
and prior experiences
to newly taught ideas
- One example is where the
teacher writes down student
recalls of experiences and the
students reviews (reads) later
- Elicits Literacy
Development
- Inquiry Approach
- Key Focus: Gains
meaning from
experiences
- Higher-ordered
thinking skills
fostered by teacher
- Planned with activities to
guide students through
inquiry/learning cycle
- Learner-centered
and builds on prior
knowledge
- Standards-Based
Instruction
- Key Focus: Teaching
according to national
standards (both
academic and ESL)
- ESL Standards are a great outline for CALLA
- Content- Based Instruction
- Knowledge-based, procedural,
motivation oriented, learning
strategy focus
- Teaching Content:
- 1. Content Objectives
- Communicate with students to know what
to expect and provide overview for unit
- 2. Prior Knowledge
- link new information to old knowledge
and prior expectations
- Empower students to make own connections
- 3. Experimental Learning
- Teach content as experiences and not facts
- 4. Multiple Intelligences
- 8 categories of learning ( linguistic, logical-mathematical,
musical, spatial, bodily-kinesthetic, interpersonal,
interpersonal, and naturalistic)
- Combine these for prime learning opportunities
- 5. Technical Vocabulary
- Incorporate vocabulary that has meaning behind it
- 6. Questioning
- Teachers model and facilitate higher-order thinking
- 7. Teacher Monitoring
- Monitor content-comprehension (questions,
checklists, performance scales)
- 8. Student monitoring
- Students taught how to monitor learning
- set learning goals
- 9. Graphic Organizers
- Schematic representation of information
- teach students how to use and why they are important
- 10. Learning Strategies
- Teachers teach learning strategies explicitly to elicit
better content and language learning
- Teaching Academic
Language
- Provide students with models in the classroom.
- Encourage Language Awareness
- All language have different categories within
language. Allow students to make those
connections regarding their own language.
- Academic Speaking, Listening, Reading, Writing
- Incorporate Language Domains into lessons
- Thinking Skills
- Elicit higher order thinking
- Learning Strategies
- Explicitly teach learning strategies for academic language