Cognitive Academic Language Proficiency

1. How can language and content instruction be coordinated to generate acquisition of social and cognitive academic languages? -Teachers and instructors should use the curriculum and guidelines set forth for said subject. It is important to not only meet the standards but to engage the students and keep their attention. The students should be able to have social language where they can mix their native language and academic language where they follow the basic rules for grammar and speech. 2. Explain

theoretical construct of self-regulation from educational psychology to the area of second language acquisition. A number of studies on self-regulation in language learning have been carried out in Western contexts (Mezei, 2008). Drawing upon the social cognitive and sociocultural perspectives of self-regulation, Wang, Quach, and Rolston (2009) investigated the development of four male Chinese English language learners ' use of self-regulated learning strategies. Their case study participants

Abstract All students are Academic English Learners. Academic Language is not a common natural language that we use in our daily conversations or routines. It is something we acquire step by step through the learning process. However, in the case of English Language Learners, it is more complex that students use academic language they learn or are learning because they most likely use L1 at home and they probably do not have the opportunities to practice them at home, which will make ELLs take occasionally

When do English language learners need to be placed in special education? In the United States, there has been an increase in in the number of children from Spanish speaking backgrounds. The English Language Learners, commonly known as ELL’s, are being placed in Special Education without being properly tested for a learning disability. However there are a large number of ELL’s with learning disabilities in elementary grades that truly have a learning disability and are over looked. Many school

the weekly Olney tiger awards. Olney Elementary School is a Kindergarten-8 grade school providing service to an ethnically diverse community. The school offers a range of subjects, such as English, math, science, social studies as well as world languages. Olney Elementary offers dance, music,

These findings have a potentially profound impact on math students engaging in think alouds. Montague et al. (1993) and Rosenzweig et al. (2011) also made extensive use of think alouds, but the purpose was to vocalize thought to evaluate for cognitive and

0-5 and higher academic performance at the university level, specifically on subjects relating to the humanities. For example, I would presume that these bilingual students would have higher GPAs in college if they were an English, Language or History major, as well as a higher score on the Reading and Writing sections of the standardized college placement exams like the SAT and the ACT.

Asian which makes up 37% of the population followed by Hispanics which make up 30% of the population (SARC). The initial linguistic position of students is 49.3% speak non-English languages while 14.6% of students speak fluent English (EdData). The majority languages in the school consist of English while the minority languages spoken consist of Mandarin, Spanish, Farsi, and Filipino. Currently, the existing educational programs do not include any bilingual programs and their curriculum is taught in English

and later move to a normal classroom (“Amendment 31”). On November 5, 2002, the initiative was rejected by 55 percent (Benz 1). Considering the rejection of the initiative, Colorado began adapting programs to assist English language learners (ELLs). Nonetheless, dual-language education remains highly controversial. While bilingual education has many positive outcomes, we cannot ignore the fact that it is not 100 percent effective. Not every child learns the same; therefore, bilingual education does

It refers to student’s ability to understand basic conversational English. CALP stands for Cognitive Academic Language Proficiency. It refers to a student’s ability to understand effectively and use more complex language necessary for success in their academic experience. The differences between the two are the time it takes to obtain and the difficulty difference between the two. BICS typically happens in two years. Where