Positive first to second language transfer by Matayah Truckenmiller

Video resources

mtrucken0024 — 2024-11-26 06:44:09 UTC

A strategy I saw from the videos to help build positive transfers from first to second language in literacy was in the video “Cross Language Connections in the Classroom”, when they talked about the linguistics of Spanish and English and how they are similar. I think first referencing the things that are the same in these languages could be helpful to the students. They can remember the similarities. I also think when they are learning cognates, which is similar meanings of words in different languages, this is helpful to students as well to be able to point out words that look familiar to them and try to figure out the context clues in a sentence they might be unfamiliar with. This can help them to identify words they know in one language and transfer to a second, new language.

In the video, “Transfer and Designate ELD in a Bilingual Classroom”, I liked that the teacher talked in Spanish and English. She had the students repeat words or phrases to her and read it in Spanish then she explained how adjectives go before nouns in English, rather than in Spanish it’s opposite. Then she had the students go up and fill in the blanks of the phrases to help them learn and understand how a proper sentence sounds and word placement in English. She was doing a lot of back and forth and she explained well. First starting with a word or two words is simpler then eventually adding in more words and creating a larger sentence.

3rd strategy

mtrucken0024 — 2024-11-26 06:47:19 UTC

In another video we watched I liked the diagram of the butterfly and the stages of life. They talked in Spanish first and went over the life cycles, then they did a little more learning on the big screen and read the life cycles with some movements in English. They did cross connecting of the languages here.

Key points

mtrucken0024 — 2024-11-26 06:50:40 UTC

The main ideas I saw between all the videos and readings was heavily on cognates and compare and contrast. If you can find similarities and start there, they can learn from each language and each others language. If they pick words they know and try to read context clues.

Scaffolding

mtrucken0024 — 2024-11-26 06:54:15 UTC

scaffolding came up a lot in the videos and reading in the book. We talked about scaffolding in class as well, now I have a new idea what this means. I never thought I had used it before but I have, even with my ELL learners. Scaffolding is a great way for positive transfer for language because you can first start with a Spanish to English dictionary or glossary of words. Then, you can have sentence starters or prompts for students to read and take out one word or take out a few words within the sentence and have them fill in the blanks.

Scaffolding also is helpful because it helps the student develop their language skills . The more they do it repetitively they will gain more confidence and be more independent. They can communicate with their peers too. They can learn from one another.