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* How I can make the transition easier for ELLs to enter into a new school, classroom and learning environment so that it becomes a positive experience from the beginning
* How to provide ELLs with the proper resources and strategies in the classroom without making the students feeling isolated or self conscious
* Is it effective to encourage parent participation into the classroom and oral conversations ?
* How to reduce the gaps ELLs may have in their learning in comparison to their English-speaking peers.
* How to promote oral language and second language learning outside of the classroom

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- Assessment AS, OF and FOR learning are important methods of documenting, observing and assessing throughout the year
- Providing indirect feedback through modelling the proper form and structure is effective in helping ELLs with corrections *Repeating what a language learner has said with rising intonation, turning it into a question, will encourage the learner to self-correct
- Offer alternative ways for students to demonstrate their learning (graphic organizer etc.)

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- Encourage students culture and diversity through making questionnaires, charts, and alphabet lists of student's first languages
- Use visuals, charts, movements and miming to help with meaning
- Simplify vocabulary and instructions
- Use hands-on activities
- Establish clear routines
- Use models to provide additional support
- Orally rehearse vocabulary and simple sentences
- Constantly "check-in" for comprehension
- Pre-teach key words
- Develop on conversational strategies (taking turns etc.)

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Promoting a Positive Language Learning Environment 

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Promoting a Positive Language Learning Environment 

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1. Encourage the use of a student's First Language (through brainstorming, peer-to-peer discussion in their first language)
2. Be mindful of an ELLs silent period
3. Cooperative learning through small group discussions and activities are a great way to learn social skills while also developing on their language acquisition

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Oral language is the foundation of literacy

A good language-learning environment enables ELLs to develop the oral language skills that will found the development of literacy

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*Immigration has intensified in Ontario by globalization and there are a greater number of ELLs in mainstream classroom
*Supporting English Language Learner's is a team effort within the school

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*Many who begin learning English before adolescence acquire everyday language skills within a year or two, but most take 5 or more years to catch up to their peers in using English
*Many Canadian-born ELLs take at least as long as newcomers to acquire academic English
*Many ELLs pass through a silent period
*Students who continue to develop age-appropriate proficiency in their own language do better in school than students who abandon their first language