Chapter 10: Creating a Supportive Language Learning Environment
Chapter 11: Supporting Beginning Language Learners
- Mainstream classroom exposure
- Bilingual tutors and volunteers
Functional Language
Copying and Labeling
Providing Comprehensive Instruction
Visual Support:
Physical Activities
- Photographs, Flash Cards,
- Physical Objects
- Manipulatives
Songs and Role Playing
- Classroom objects
- Places in school
- Names and titles
- What is your name? My name is...
- Will you help me?
- What is this? This is...
Print Rich Environment
Language Experience Stories
Stories on Tape
Games and Puzzles
Comprehensive Strategies
- Simplify sentence structure
Cooperative Learning
Supportive Feedback
- Responding to oral errors
- Direct instruction for habitual errors
- English speakers in class
Cooperative Learning Activities
Responding to Written Language
- Incorporate writing in class
Developing Sociolinguistic Skills
- Instruction in conversational strategies
higher understanding of English communication