basic interpersonal communicative skills: the language that children learn in the early years of life
CALP
cognitive academic language proficiency; takes at least 5 years for kids to master
It would be extremely helpful for me to know about my students’ CALP, because then I could give
them the extra care and attention that will help them in the long run.
Means that just because a student speaks a language does not
mean that they fully understand the complex writing and
grammatical aspects of the language
Stephen Krashen
Comprehensible Input
Despite individual variation, we all
acquire language in the same way.
We acquire language in one way and only one
way: when we understand messages, or
comprehensible input.
Spock drawing
BF Skinner
Behaviorism
His theory, operant conditioning,
stated that behavior is controlled by
consequences
He believed that learning a language is done
through behavior, meaning that a positive or
negative stimulus can affect learning
Noam Chomsky
Universal Grammar
states that all human language
rests on innate building blocks of
expression
Verbs
Nouns
Adjectives
By pointing out the connections between
languages students are able to locate
similarities in English
Judi Haynes
Students learn a language in 5 stages
Stage 1: Pre-Production
Stage 2: Early producton
Stage 3: Speech Emergence
Stage 4: Intermediate Fluency
Stage 5: Advanced Fluency
Important because students go
through each stage but each can
experience them differently