Zusammenfassung der Ressource
ESL Approaches
and Methods
- CALLA - Cognitive
Academic Language
Learning Approach
- Content-Based
Curriculum
- setting content
objectives
- Experiential learning and differentiating instruction
- Accessing Prior
knowledge
- Academic
language/literacy
development
- teaching technical
vocabulary for each
content area
- Example: Accessing prior
knowledge of
academic/technical
language in the student's L1
- Source: I made this
for my EBs leading
up to their
trigonometric
ratios quiz.
- Example: Teach students
to seek out context
clues
- Literacy development
- Identifying student's
literacy in their L1 so
they can utilize the
same conceptual
knowledge and literacy
skills in their L2
- Example:
Continuing to
enrich student's
literacy skills in
their L1
- learning strategies
- metacognitive model of strategic learning (Chamot)
- Monitor
- Example: Teachers monitor
comprehension,
adjust/tweak/accommodate
as necessary
- Example : Students learn to monitor their
own comprehension and set
learning goals
- Source:
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- Plan
- Problem-Solve
- Evaluate
- Five stages of lesson planning: 1)
Preparation 2) Presentation 3) Practice 4)
Evaluation 5) Expansion
- cognitive method
- ICB - Integrative Content-Based Method
- Often collaborative in nature, with
ESL teachers interacting regularly
with content area teachers in order to
provide adequate accommodations
and support for EBs.
- Example: developing authentic assessments
for EBs in a history class, where they must
complete a cloze paragraph about the
chapters on the Revolutionary War they just
completed with the rest of the class.
- Teacher focuses on student's
sociocultural needs, as well as
academic and cognitive needs,
while developing appropriate
grade-level accommodations.
- language used in content
objectives places a priority on
high order thinking skills/pushing
the student up Bloom's
taxonomy.
- Focus on equipping EBs
with pedagogical/content
area and general
academic language
- Providing EBs with
access to grade-level
content area
curriculum
- Focus on content area
technical language
necessary for success in
grade-level curriculum
- communicative approach
- facilitating collaborative learning
- example: encouraging students to
work in groups to complete
authentic assessments; utilizing
active learning protocols such as
think/pair/share.
- Utilizing learning centers
- multimodal resources for
reading/listening tasks
and digital manipulatives
- activities that can
be done
individually or in
groups.
- SIOP -
Sheltered
Instruction
Observation
Protocol
- Content is made
accessible for EB
students via ESL
methods
- Strong focus on content
language and academic
language development
- Students are
provided
supplementary
material
- Example: realia
- example: manipulatives
- example: games and
activities that
encourage movement
- Eight stages of lesson
planning: 1) Preparation 2)
Building background 3)
Comprehensible input 4)
Strategies Interaction 5)
Practice and application 6)
Lesson delivery 7) Review
and assessment
- Adaptation of content
- Example: adapting grade level content (such as the
Declaration of Independence in an ELA classroom
or Newton's Laws in Physical Science) for EBs by
modeling reading strategies or accessing prior
knowledge with a KWL chart, think-alouds during
reading, and asking comprehension questions
after.
- Meaningful activities
- Example: differentiating instruction for
all different levels of English proficiency
by utilizing tools such as picture
dictionaries, online translators, and
resources in the student's L1. Ensuring
that activities utilize SWRL in order to
encourage cognitive/linguistic
development.
- Instruction
- Example: utilizing building background,
comprehensible input, strategies, interaction, practice
and application, and lesson delivery to develop
objectives that provide support for the student in their
content area.
- Building background
- Identifying
and utilizing a
student's prior
knowledge in
their L1
- comprehensible imput
- Example: In a unit on the Declaration of
Independence, rewriting key phrases in
level-appropriate language and/or
reducing incidental language. Counting
with fingers through each of the 18
grievances against the king. In groups,
annotating each grievance and looking
up archaic language for simpler words
that mean the same thing.
- Source: Herrera &i Murray, 2016
- Strategies
- Example: using
think-aloud and
scaffolding to instruct
students in learning to
annotate a newspaper
article.
- SDAIE - Specially
Designed
Academic
Instruction in
English
- For
intermediate-advanced
proficiency
EBs
- Provides access to core content area curriculum
- Goals and objectives:
- Language/Content/social
strategies
- Working in small,
homogenous
groups/collaborative
learning
- Working in thematic
units along with core
curricula with
scaffolding and
adaptations as
necessary
- Authentic formal and informal assessments
- Creating artifacts like
portfolios to keep record of
student's progress
- Sources
- Mastering ESL/EFL Methods // Herrera & Murray (2016)
- The CALLA Handbook // Chamot (2009)
- The Learning Strategies Handbook // Chamot, Barnhardt, El-Dinary, Robbins (1999)