ESL

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ESL

• English as a Second Language
• Students in the American school system where
  English is not their primary spoken language

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ESL POPULATION

• More than 10 million students currently enrolled
  in US schools come from homes in which a language
  other than English is spoken
• 1 in 5 Americans speak a language other than
  English at home.

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Who makes up this ESL Population

• Hispanics
• Ukrainian
• Chinese
• Russian
• French
• Indian

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Identified

• Limited English Proficient
• Any student with a language other than English
• Student will be tested by ESL team to determine
  if ESL services are needed
• 12 of migrant students may need special
  education services.
• Most migrant students are Under-Identified
• Leave school system before IEP has been fully
  developed

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3 things you should know about your LEPs

• How many years (months) has the student been
  attending school in the U.S.?
• How many years (months) has the student attended
  school in his or her native country?
• Can the student read and write in his or her
  native language?
• Yes, fluently_________
• Yes, adequately_______
• Yes, poorly_________
• No __________

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Understanding the 4 stages of achieving fluency

• Pre-production
• Early production
• Speech emergence
• Intermediate fluency
• Before beginning instruction, it is important for
  the teacher to know which stage of language
  acquisition the ESL student is in.
• It is not unusual for students to be in different
  proficiency levels in listening, speaking,
  reading, and writing

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Strategies

• Increase comprehension by giving clues (mostly
  non-verbal) to make input understandable.
  Visual, demonstrations, hands-on learning,
  graphic organizers.
• Increase interaction through communicating with
  others. Cooperative learning, study buddies,
  projects, tutors.

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Strategies

• Increase thinking/study skills by teaching
  thinking skills and thinking language by focusing
  instruction on higher order thinking tasks
  (discovery, synthesis, evaluation).
• Help them understand textbooks by teaching the
  text backwards
• Do selected applications based on materials
  (something that applies to the lesson)
• Discuss the material in class (key vocabulary
  words and concepts.
• Answer study questions at the end of the chapter
  (preview pictures, diagrams etc.)
• Read the text (divide chapter up into small parts
  to increase understanding)

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SOURCES

• httpwww.sptimes.com/2003/10/09/Worldandnation/Non
  _English_speaking_.shtml
• The Help! Kit A Resource Guide for Secondary
  Teachers of Migrant English Language Learners.
  Oneonta, NY Escort Publishing Company
• www.escort.org