Speak2Read Case Study French Immersion

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Speak2Read Case Study French Immersion

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Bilingual Therapy? Oui, Oui, Madame! Its true!
We often get requests from parents with children
in French Immersion who are concerned about their
childs progress and are even contemplating
removing their child from French Immersion.
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This can be a difficult decision often there is
a familial culture on the line! Take Basil
(Louis and Basil from Sesame Street is where I
learned the bulk of my French )
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Basil was coming out of Grade one in French
Immersion. He was late acquiring his letter
concepts the ability to name a letter when
shown or to say the sound associated with the
letter. He knew a few sight words but had to work
pretty hard to acquire them.
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He had trouble with truly decoding when looking
at early readers less-frequent words such as
characters names were difficult for him to sound
out. He seemed to do well with auditory
comprehension but was slipping behind his
classmates in literacy skills.
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Assessment revealed below average skills in his
sound processing profile. We know that causes
difficulty for the brain it becomes very
difficult to pair verbal and visual information
when the verbal information is dictated by sound.
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In other words, a student may recognize a letter
but has trouble consolidating its name, its
sound, or both. This is a foundational skill in
early literacy, and a delay or slowdown in this
process essentially hijacks the whole process of
learning to decode.
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That much we know from brain imaging research, in
English or in French. However, there are some
further considerations and contributions from the
sound system when it comes to learning a second
language.
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Here are some things we may be conscious of,
watch for, or predict from this profile when a
student is attempting to learn French both the
oral and written language
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• Basil would likely have difficulty acquiring
  literacy skills in English, even if that were the
  only language of instruction. As such, a delay in
  literacy acquisition in both languages or either
  language is predicted.
• Specifically, difficulty with decoding, reading
  accuracy, and spelling accuracy is predicted.

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• Basil is likely to have a slowdown in learning
  French vocabulary and to need extra exposures of
  new words to consolidate vocabulary. Repetition
  and explicit teaching around vocabulary, in this
  case, is recommended, to concretely pair the
  sound representation of the word with the meaning
  area of the brain.

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• Basil is likely to have a slowdown in listening
  and reading comprehension for longer, more
  linguistically-complex sentences. For example, he
  may tend to grasp the big picture but miss
  specific details.

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• Basil is at risk to have difficulty acquiring
  grammatical forms, such as changes to word
  morphology when conjugating verbs. (E.g.,
  conjugating the verb Être).

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• A disorganized sound system may have difficulty
  with sound discrimination tasks the act of
  differentiating or knowing the difference
  between sounds. We are especially conscious of
  Basils ability to differentiate between oral and
  nasal sounds (both consonants and vowels), such
  as the final sound heard in sont.

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• Basil is likely to get confused between
  similar-sounding words and similar-looking words
  such as homonyms, homophones, and homographs (in
  either language).

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This confusion may exist in oral and/or written
language. It may be difficulty to pronounce them,
use the right word, spell the right word, or
extract the accurate meaning when reading.
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• Have difficulty acquiring pronunciation that is
  dictated by grammar (e.g., met, mettez,
  metes).
• For both oral and written language, the sound
  representation system must activate accurately,
  but then also communicate through long neural
  pathways that lie deep within the brain.

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It is worth knowing how your child learns what
are their sound processing skills like? How well
do brain areas in their brain communicate? What
lies in store for them as a learner?
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You may have a challenging decision ahead
regarding your childs future. Is the best fit
for them to remain in French Immersion? Would
they have an easier time with English instruction
only?
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Why not by yourself some time? An assessment can
tell you about your childs Learning Profile so
you can make an informed decision. Meanwhile,
most children respond very quickly to our
Literacy Instruction, in either language You may
not need to make that decision after all!
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Interested to learn more? You can book an initial
consultation online through our website! Cest
bon, Louis!! Oui, Oui, Basil! Source -
http//speak2read.ca/french-immersion-case-study/
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