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THERE ARE 2 PARTS
PART 1:
ESOL COURSE- Aural/Oral Communication
The four modalities of language are listening, speaking, reading, and writing. These are also referred to as the four language skills. Listening and reading are considered receptive skills or input, while speaking and writing are productive or output. Aural refers to hearing while oral refers to speaking.
By providing an integration of each of these skills, we promote balanced language development and support multiple cognitive connections to new learning. The importance of activating prior knowledge or schema for students is based on the natural function of the brain to connect new understanding to existing understanding. New concepts are not dumped into an empty vessel called the mind. On the contrary, the brain, when presented new information, will search its existing schemata (plural for schema) to find something it can relate/connect the new information to. Physiologically, learning looks something like a tree with branches (existing neurons with dendrites that hold information) that stretch out connect to new concepts when they are presented.
One of the most important concepts to keep in mind is that these 4 skills are correlated in pairs. Listening and speaking are paired in the oral area of communication, and reading and writing are in the graphic area. On the other hand, listening and reading are paired for the receptive area of communication, while speaking and writing are grouped in the productive area.
Strategic development of listening, speaking, reading, and writing are essential in language acquisition.
ASSIGNMENT INSTRUCTIONS:
2 PARAGRAPHS- Describe a strategy in the listening and/or speaking domain you can use to activate prior knowledge before introducing a new lesson/concept
Part 2: Grades K-2 Student Portrait: Pamela arrived two weeks ago from the Dominican Republic where she was an exceptional student. She attended pre-school and was in first grade in the DR, she was placed in a first-grade class in the U.S. She loves school but is very shy and will only speak with Spanish speakers in the room. She is an only child but has cousins who are in the same school. Pamela is in the most emergent stages of Second Language acquisition. Her language classification level is an A1 according to the IPT test that was administered for ESOL placement.
Task: Mr. Krauss needs students to orally explain their understanding of equations. How can he differentiate the assessment for Pamela based on her Language Classification?
ASSIGNMENT INSTRUCTIONS: Respond to the TASK ABOVE supported by evidence from this week’s readings with 2 PARAGRAPHS.
