The Literacy Level Of The Learner

One-point teachers should be aware of language acquisition is that the child ability to participate in a classroom may be affect because of the lack of communication, must of the time students that are second language learners tend to stay quite and demonstrate lack of understanding. It is important to identify these students to be able to approach and teach them adequately.

Second language acquisition has long been the focus of linguists and researchers in the teaching field. It highlights the process and theories of acquiring second languages among learners. Second language acquisition seeks to understand the development of second language acquisition among second language learners. Mastering the knowledge of second language acquisition helps teachers to successfully provide effective teaching for students. Undeniably, knowledge on second language acquisition is very much related to effective teaching of second languages. Many linguists and teacher educators believe that all language teachers should be equipped with knowledge of second language acquisition to help them teach effectively. Additionally, most teacher training programmers have incorporated second language acquisition as a compulsory course to make sure that all future language teachers are well-equipped with enough knowledge to teach in classroom.

Within this paper we will take a brief look at the Language Acquisition Principles and how they work on the behalf of ELL students. We will see how these principles can be applied within our own learning environment. There is much information from Walqui article that gives a brief overview of ELL students and how things looked in the past for these students. Now that times has change we will see how educators can make the requirements for ELL students better and more effective for teacher and students. Hopefully, as we look at ways of changing learning for our ELL students we must remember that every student learns differently. Even if you follow the principles from

Language is the primary way to communicate, learn and express identity. Some language learners are successful by virtue of their sheer determination, hard work and diligence. However, there are other crucial factors influencing success that are largely beyond the control of learners. ' 'Second language is any language other than the learner 's native language or mother tongue ' '(Mitchell pg 5). To be successful in second language acquisition, there are various factors which act as barrier in the process of learning English as a second language.

When reflecting over this assignment I have come to realize the importance of where are students reading levels may be. Some may be dependent readers and some may be independent readers that is why pre-reading activities are great at allow us to see our students prior knowledge of what we are about to teach them. I wondered for a while how am I going to get this magazine article across to my students because this is not a typical assignment in my class. I do like sharing inspirational stories with them but I prefer sharing vocabulary and art history information with my students so this assignment was very difficult for me to grasp and understand. This was a definite learning experience for myself as a grad student because I had to think of the reading and then create informative statements that may offer a yes or no answer. That is what was difficult for me as the educator to break down the article into areas in which I thought would be beneficial to hear feedback from my students.

Because talking is not recorded in a book unlike writing, teachers may tend to be less reflective on what is said rather than what is written. For instance, Alexander (2004:6) points out that it is always written work that is regarded as ‘real school work and as the most reliable medium for measuring pupil’s learning’. Barnes (1992:124) also implies that learning is not simply adding bits of information to the previous knowledge. Rather, most important learning is a matter of ‘working on understanding’, which can be achieved through talk (ibid).

Meaningful learning only take place when interaction exists between the teacher and the learner. “If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language that goes to his heart” says Nelson Mandela. So mother tongue allows for proper social integration and helps to avoid maladjustment in schools. Therefore, in the maze of unfamiliar linguistic medium, the learner have at least the familiar mother tongue to hold on. For the same reason, mother tongue is the most effective medium to use in instructing learners if they are about to reach their potential. It has been proved that children learns well when they are highly skilled in the medium of

Combined with this is the fact that in most EFL teaching environments, students most likely only speak and listen to English in the classroom (Mattioli 2004). Romero Trillo suggests that while native speakers follow a “function-to-form developmental process”, learners follow a “form-to-function process” (2002:

During this second unit we reviewed the most important approaches and methods in language teaching used nowadays. These methods are based in theories that view the language and the learning process differently, in consequence, they have different goals and uses depending what the teacher wants to accomplish.

TLE allows paired language learners to exchange their cultural and linguistic knowledge through a series of self-directed and agreed sessions, in which both correspondents have something to learn and offer (Little &Brammerts, 1996). It enables pupils to use Internet-based web-conferencing, Skype and video chat applications to connect with native speakers studying

It has been proven through research that young learners benefit from participating in both informal and formal talk throughout the school day. The aim of teaching a second language is to assist the young learner to speak fluently and communicate effectively in a second language.

There is only one reason could be considered why learners decide to use L1 in the classroom. This is because the teacher’s efforts encourage them to communicate in the target language. Harmer (2002) maintains that the second language users choose to use the mother tongue when there is no compatible with their L2 level. When the teacher does not create an environment for students to communicate naturally to use English, students may need to use L1 to communicate. If the teacher does not use the target language too much so that students may feel free to use their mother tongue in the second language classroom. Thus, some different learning styles can be implemented that enable students to use the target language much more easily.

Learning a second or foreign language is a complicated process as successful foreign language learning requires the learner to demonstrate high levels of communicative competence, and achieving communicative competence is the main objective in many English as a Foreign Language (EFL) classrooms. There has been widespread recognition among second language acquisition (SLA) researchers that SLA is not

Why do MFL teachers need to use TL in their lesson? First of all, teachers are always assimilated to role models for their pupils; for a French teacher who is trying to make his students talk in French, it would be coherent to model those expectations. In that way, the logical question from a reluctant student asking - “why are WE expected to speak French and you are not?!”- can be avoided. Also, many would say that it is just common sense to say that the best progress will be made if the teacher uses as much TL as possible. So, can we suggest that the more pupils hear a language the more they can grasp? Indeed, when teachers use the TL as the principal mean of communication it allows pupils to gain a maximum opportunity to use it for themselves as well. (Little, 1995) Also, when learners hear large amounts of comprehensible input and they are engaged in meaning-making, they understand and retain what they hear and they use it to form their own messages. (Long, 1981) (Swain, 1995) In addition to that point, ACTFL states that “learners need as much exposure as possible to the target language for acquisition to occur” (ACTFL, 2017). If this statement is accepted to be true, then, the MFL teacher has no other choice but to use TL as much as he can, especially when it is established that the classroom is the only opportunity for the French student to hear and speak in the target language. Crichton (2009) suggests that it is still possible if the target language is seen as the normal means of communication by both the teacher and the students. In conclusion, those multiple opinions highlight the importance of a good quantity of TL within the classroom.

Recent decades has witnessed the method of language teaching in Second Language Acquisition (SLA) has a shift from grammar-translation toward Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) (Brandl, 2007). During the 20th century, as increased attention was paid to the demand of communication skills, grammar-translation method which emphasizing knowledge of grammatical rules and translation activities was no longer effective (Richards & Rodgers, 2001). In Australia, CLT is a preferred approach to be adopted for second language teaching (Fernandez, 2008). Therefore, the pedagogy of CLT incorporating an array of supportive teaching strategies will be implemented in my LOTE teaching to ensure that all L2 learners are engaged, challenged and learning successfully.