Canadian Born English Language Learners by Melissa Mclennan https://padlet.com/mmclennan959/ftw9feol62na ESL en-us 2018-07-02 18:23:14 UTC 2018-07-02 18:52:27 UTC hello@padlet.com Canadian-born ELLs are underperforming academically mmclennan959 https://padlet.com/mmclennan959/ftw9feol62na/wish/269184158 2018-07-02 18:33:52 UTC https://padlet.com/mmclennan959/ftw9feol62na/wish/269184158 Canadian-born ELLs may be difficult to identify due to registration forms record (at time of enrollement) which states that English as their spoken language. mmclennan959 https://padlet.com/mmclennan959/ftw9feol62na/wish/269184282 2018-07-02 18:35:14 UTC https://padlet.com/mmclennan959/ftw9feol62na/wish/269184282 It is important for educators to engage in a variety of activities to help identify with students are Canadian born ELLs (i.e., student interviews, discussion about additional languages, etc.) mmclennan959 https://padlet.com/mmclennan959/ftw9feol62na/wish/269184384 2018-07-02 18:36:56 UTC https://padlet.com/mmclennan959/ftw9feol62na/wish/269184384 Basic Interpersonal Communication Skills takes approximately 2 years to develop and is described as social exchange/conversation mmclennan959 https://padlet.com/mmclennan959/ftw9feol62na/wish/269184564 2018-07-02 18:39:31 UTC https://padlet.com/mmclennan959/ftw9feol62na/wish/269184564 Cognitive Academic Language Proficiency which is academic english takes about 5-7 years for ELLs to develop mmclennan959 https://padlet.com/mmclennan959/ftw9feol62na/wish/269184679 2018-07-02 18:40:46 UTC https://padlet.com/mmclennan959/ftw9feol62na/wish/269184679 Each day, there should be face-to-face conversations, using real-life experiences, and using high frequency words mmclennan959 https://padlet.com/mmclennan959/ftw9feol62na/wish/269185067 2018-07-02 18:44:11 UTC https://padlet.com/mmclennan959/ftw9feol62na/wish/269185067 To help with academic english learning, teachers should be encouraging talking, reading and writing about about abstract concepts/topics mmclennan959 https://padlet.com/mmclennan959/ftw9feol62na/wish/269185187 2018-07-02 18:45:32 UTC https://padlet.com/mmclennan959/ftw9feol62na/wish/269185187 We need to provide appropriate scaffolding so that ELL learners are able to participate in activities with the rest of the class mmclennan959 https://padlet.com/mmclennan959/ftw9feol62na/wish/269185319 2018-07-02 18:47:16 UTC https://padlet.com/mmclennan959/ftw9feol62na/wish/269185319 All students need to be engaged with authentic and cognitively challenging learning tasks mmclennan959 https://padlet.com/mmclennan959/ftw9feol62na/wish/269185364 2018-07-02 18:47:39 UTC https://padlet.com/mmclennan959/ftw9feol62na/wish/269185364 Teachers should state/repeat the message/instructions in more than one way mmclennan959 https://padlet.com/mmclennan959/ftw9feol62na/wish/269185447 2018-07-02 18:48:23 UTC https://padlet.com/mmclennan959/ftw9feol62na/wish/269185447 It is extremely beneficial when teachers are able to incorporatestudents’ experience and background knowledge into classroom work, as it helps with motivation and personal connections mmclennan959 https://padlet.com/mmclennan959/ftw9feol62na/wish/269185483 2018-07-02 18:49:00 UTC https://padlet.com/mmclennan959/ftw9feol62na/wish/269185483 Classroom dialogue is extremely important mmclennan959 https://padlet.com/mmclennan959/ftw9feol62na/wish/269185527 2018-07-02 18:50:06 UTC https://padlet.com/mmclennan959/ftw9feol62na/wish/269185527 It is important to consider how we are assessing ELLs mmclennan959 https://padlet.com/mmclennan959/ftw9feol62na/wish/269185570 Alternative assessment strategies and evaluation may
be beneficial to enable Canadian-born ELLs to demonstrate their learning]]> 2018-07-02 18:51:07 UTC https://padlet.com/mmclennan959/ftw9feol62na/wish/269185570 Ensure that informal and formal assessments reveal strengths and needs mmclennan959 https://padlet.com/mmclennan959/ftw9feol62na/wish/269185617 2018-07-02 18:52:18 UTC https://padlet.com/mmclennan959/ftw9feol62na/wish/269185617