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Partnering with Parents and the Community

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Partnering with Parents and the Community

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Scaffolding Instruction for Mandarin Speakers

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Scaffolding Instruction for Mandarin Speakers

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Valuing Language & Culture in the Classroom

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Valuing Language & Culture in the Classroom

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Understanding the Bilingual Learner's Journey

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Understanding the Bilingual Learner's Journey

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Assessing Bilingual Learners:  Considerations and Approaches

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Assessing Bilingual Learners:  Considerations and Approaches

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Support for talking to parents about bilingualism.

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Bilingual Families: A Practical Language Planning Guide

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Bilingual Families: A Practical Language Planning Guide [Crisfield, Eowyn] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Bilingual Families: A Practical Language Planning Guide

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Phonemic Inventories and Cultural Linguistic Information Across Languages

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Phonemic Inventories and Cultural Linguistic Information Across Languages

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International school educators serve many students with diverse primary/home languages. After reading about the linguistic features and common influences of the languages mobilized in your classroom/school on English learning, reflect on how this knowledge can inform your teaching practice and interactions with multilingual learners.

Based on the phonemic inventories, linguistic features and phoneme charts; what might be some insights or strategies you plan to implement to better support these students' language development and academic success?

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Languages across the world have unique phonemic systems. For individuals learning English as a second language, it is common for the phonemic system of their first language to influence the production of sounds in English.

Resources listed below are intended to contribute to foundational awareness of potential cultural and linguistic influences. There are variations within cultures, and regional and dialectal variances exist in all languages. Therefore, a single chart/page on cultural and/or linguistic features is not meant to provide a comprehensive overview. Clinical judgment, client/patient/student and caregiver input, and additional research are needed to ensure culturally responsive services.

How Can I Use This Information?

Speech-language pathologists can use this information to:

Identify sounds in a client's phonological system for languages other than English.

Determine phonemic influences of a client's native language on English.

Identify sounds from the client's first language that may not exist in English or identify sounds in English that do not exist in someone's native language.

Recognize that even if there are similar sounds across two languages, they may not be used the same way. For example, in some languages a sound may only be used at the ends of words and not as a word-initial sound.

Audiologists can use this information to:

Correlate the client's audiogram and the sounds of the client's language(s).

Recognize and respond to amplification needs.

Identify the effect of the individual's phonemic system on speech audiometry assessment.

Modify materials and procedures during speech audiometry assessment.

Phonemic Inventories and Cultural and Linguistic Information

ASHA has compiled resources on the phonemic systems for the following languages:

Amharic

Arabic

Bosnian

Burmese

Chinese

English

English Phonemic Inventory [PDF]
Dialect
Haitian Creole

Hindi/Urdu

Hmong

Japanese

Korean

Navajo

Pashto and Persian

Polish

Russian

Spanish

Somali

Somali (Portland State University)

Tagalog

Vietnamese

Refugee Profiles/Information
ASHA's policy documents state that SLPs and audiologists must consider the sound systems of all the languages used by a client in order to provide appropriate assessment and treatment services.
Websites with Phonemic Inventories

If you have any questions, please contact ASHA's Office of Multicultural Affairs at multicultural@asha.org.

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Phonemic Inventories and Cultural and Linguistic Information Across Languages

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A list of phonemic inventories across multiple languages

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Reflect on the current linguistic landscape of your classroom/school. How can you intentionally design and enrich this space to better reflect, affirm, and support the diverse linguistic and cultural identities of your students?

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Literacy Consultants & Consulting Services | Erin Kent Consulting

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Literacy Consultants & Consulting Services | Erin Kent Consulting

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EKC provides literacy consultants, consulting services, and literacy professional learning for schools.

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Read this article and find connections to how you're designing for translanguaging in your classroom/school. What are some standout ideas/strategies that you are keen to try?

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Centre for Educators of Bilingual and Multilingual Learners

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Centre for Educators of Bilingual and Multilingual Learners

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Excellent blog with ideas for honoring all languages.

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A UK-based social enterprise that focuses on equipping international schools with multilingualism and bilingualism best practices. Read Blog

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Reflect on the current practices in your classroom setting. How are you already fostering flexible use of languages? What ideas are you interested in trying?

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Planning for Translanguaging in Writing Workshop

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Planning for Translanguaging in Writing Workshop

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STEP 1:

Consider your current writing unit. How you might incorporate translanguaging into each part of the writing process. Note the key learning goals for each step in the writing process.

STEP 2:

Consider the design principles to support translanguaging. Note opportunities that might exist for the flexible use of languages to support student writing/learning?

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Dig deeper!

How Bilingual Brains Switch Between Languages (3 min)  🔗

How Languages Shape the Brain (5 min) 🔗

What’s Going On in the Brain of a Bilingual Child (7 min)  🔗

The Languages We Speak Changes the Colors We See (3 min)  🔗

From Monolingual Mindsets to the Multilingual Turn: Paradigm Shifts for EAL 🔗

How the Languages We Speak Shape the Way We Think  (11 min)  🔗

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Language Acquisition: An Overview  (9min) 🔗

Second Language Acquisition Theories and What It Means for Teacher Instruction 🔗

Key Concepts for Language Development (4min) 🔗

Simultaneous and Sequential Bilingualism 🔗

Krashen’s Theory of Second Language Acquisition (7 min) 🔗

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Dig Deeper!

Forgetting My First Language (11 min) 🔗

Honoring Students Stories: Identity Texts to Write and Diverse Texts to Read 🔗

Sustaining a Critical Stance on Language and Identity with Bilingual and Multilingual Students 6-12 (1 hour) 🔗

Funds of Knowledge 🔗 (2min)

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Dig Deeper!  Six Key Principles for Effective ELL Instruction

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Dig Deeper!  Six Key Principles for Effective ELL Instruction

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What are the 6 Key Principles for Effective ELL Instruction? 🔗

What might that look like in our cotaught lessons?

Principle 1: Literacy Across the Curriculum

Infusing Authentic Communication 🔗

Teaching Reading Across Gradual Release of Responsibility  🔗

Beth's Favorite Academic Vocabulary Strategies 🔗

Principle 2: Translanguaging

What is Translanguaging? 🔗

The Transformative Power of Translanguaging 🔗

The Home Language: An English Language Learners' Most Valuable Resource 🔗

Nurturing a Rich First Language-the Key To Success in School 🔗

Translanguaging During Vocabulary 🔗

Principle 4: Differentiation:

A Starter Kit for Differentiation 🔗

Instructional Playlists

3 Ways to Differentiate In Any Class 🔗

Differentiation Roundup 🔗

Differentiation for English Language Learners 🔗

Differentiation: What is it? What is it not? 🔗

Culturally Responsive Differentiation Strategies 🔗

18 Teacher Tested Strategies for Differentiated Instruction 🔗

Differentiation Central: Institute of Academic Diversity 🔗

Guided Reading with Jenna 🔗

Guided Reading: Small Group Instruction 🔗

Principle 5: Scaffolding

What is Scaffolding and How Does It Help? 🔗

Scaffolding Instruction for English Learners 🔗

Kagan Cooperative Learning Strategies 🔗

Harvard Project Zero Thinking Routines 🔗

Scaffolding Success 🔗

4 Strategies for Scaffolding for ELs 🔗

6 Scaffolding Strategies to Use with Your Students 🔗

Scaffolding for CCS 🔗

Instructional Scaffolding with Graphic Organizers 🔗

Principle 6: Formative Assessment

7 Keys to Effective Feedback 🔗

How to Reduce Racial Bias in Grading 🔗

Formative Assessment, Common Core and ELLs 🔗

Assessment for ELLs 🔗

Using Informal Assessment for English Learners 🔗

7 Smart Fast Ways to Do Formative Assessment 🔗

WestEd: Focusing Formative Assessment on the Needs of English Language Learners 🔗

Formative Assessment for ELLs 🔗

Supporting English Language Learners with Formative Assessment Strategies 🔗

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EKC Multilingual Ecosystem Unit Design Success Criteria

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EKC Multilingual Ecosystem Unit Design Success Criteria

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How might this design criteria guide the design of equitable assessments for bilingual/multilingual learners?

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Dig deeper!

WIDA Guiding Language Principles 🔗

Questions about Immersion 🔗

6 Principles for Effective ELL Instruction 🔗

Two Way Immersion Glossary 🔗

What is Content Integrated Learning? 🔗

Key Principles for ELL Instruction 🔗

The Costs of English  Only Education 🔗

Why UDL for ELL Learners 🔗

UDL Guidelines 🔗

Language Immersion 🔗

Universal Design for Learning 🔗

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Tell the story of your learning and help other educators around the world! We love to see what's transferring to the classroom!

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Cultivating a Culturally Responsive Learning Environment

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Cultivating a Culturally Responsive Learning Environment

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Action Planning:  Implementing Strategies in Your Context

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Action Planning:  Implementing Strategies in Your Context

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Reflection and Next Steps:  Sharing Your Learning Journey

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Reflection and Next Steps:  Sharing Your Learning Journey

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In this column, write a new post below where you:

Summarize the key takeaways from the course.

Set your professional goals with your community.

List supports you might need going forward.

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Classroom Assessment in Multiple Languages 

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Classroom Assessment in Multiple Languages 

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Classroom Assessment in Multiple Languages: A Handbook for Teachers by Margo Gottlieb provides educators with practical strategies for assessing multilingual learners. The book emphasizes equity, cultural inclusivity, and leveraging students' linguistic assets. It introduces assessment practices for multilingual classrooms, focusing on "assessment as, for, and of learning." This guide empowers teachers to design assessments that honor students’ diverse backgrounds while integrating social-emotional, academic, and language development. Featuring reflective questions and tools, the book promotes a strengths-based approach to multilingual education.

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Classroom Assessment in Multiple Languages: A Handbook for Teachers

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Classroom Assessment in Multiple Languages: A Handbook for Teachers [Gottlieb, Margo] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Classroom Assessment in Multiple Languages: A Handbook for Teachers

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12 Questions to Ask When Designing Culturally and Historically Responsive Curriculum

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12 Questions to Ask When Designing Culturally and Historically Responsive Curriculum

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The article "12 Questions to Ask When Designing Culturally and Historically Responsive Curriculum" by Dr. Gholdy Muhammad introduces a framework for creating inclusive and meaningful education. It emphasizes culturally and historically responsive education (CHRE), derived from Black educational traditions, which prioritizes identity, skills, intellectualism, criticality, and joy. The 12 guiding questions help educators design curriculum that connects learning to students' identities, teaches anti-oppression, fosters joy, and encourages social action. This approach centers student voices, engages families, and prepares students for academic success and lifelong fulfillment.

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Culturally Responsive Teaching for Multilingual Learners: Tools for Equity

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Culturally Responsive Teaching for Multilingual Learners: Tools for Equity

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Sydney Cail Snyder (Author), Diane Staehr Fenner (Author)

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Culturally Responsive Teaching for Multilingual Learners: Tools for Equity

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Culturally Responsive Teaching for Multilingual Learners: Tools for Equity [Snyder, Sydney Cail, Fenner, Diane Staehr] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Culturally Responsive Teaching for Multilingual Learners: Tools for Equity

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While focused on the context of the US, this website gives practical examples of translanguaging in the classroom.

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Since 2011, CUNY-NYSIEB has developed a wealth of resources which school leaders, teachers, and communities can use to support emergent bilingual learners. The concrete tools and strategies we present here unite theory with practice, and respond to needs identified by our partner schools across New York State.