... language Programs: ESL English as a second language EFL English as a foreign language ESOL Englishfor speakers of other languagesTESOL TeachingEnglish to speakers of other languagesTESL TeachingEnglish ... speaker/speakingNELB Non -English language backgroundLEP Limited English profi cient/profi ciency ELL Englishlanguage learnerLanguages:L1 First language L2 Second language TL Target language FL Foreign language Programs: ... context of Englishfor Academic Purposes, an area of study primarily informed by college-level second -language writers and their need to incorporate information from sources. Grabe calls for more...
... perform poorly in school.Similarly, a wide variety of methods are used for identifying students as English- language learners. Durán is especially concerned about identification of English- language learners. ... for English- language learners. These problems become more immediate with the newly implemented ac-countability measures that require disaggregated reporting of results for English- languagelearners ... policies for including and accommodating students withdisabilities; Lynne Sacks and Laura Golden provided similar informationabout states’ policies for English- language learners. Policies for Students...
... Science, Foreign Languages 26 (2010) 171-180 171 A brief comparison of Vietnamese intonation and English intonation and its implications forteachingEnglish intonation to Vietnamese EFL learners ... Nhung / VNU Journal of Science, Foreign Languages 26 (2010) 171-172 175 3. The English word structure and the English intonation 3.1. English word structure English words can be monosyllabic ... requirement for non-native learners of English for a better communicative discourse with native or non-native speakers of English. References [1] K.L. Pike, The intonation of American English, ...
... 51Making language and content accessible forEnglishlanguagelearners 55Strategies to support beginning Englishlanguagelearners 57On-going strategies for supporting Englishlanguagelearners ... available for a variety of purposes. Introduction 2Section 1 Understanding Englishlanguagelearners 5 English languagelearners (ELLs) in Ontario schools 5Canadian-born Englishlanguagelearners ... Considerationsfor EnglishLanguage Learners: Delivering a Continuum of Services. Caslon Publishing, 2007. p.40Section 2 Working together to support Englishlanguage learners Supporting EnglishLanguage Learners...
... DIALOGUE JOURNALS WITH ENGLISHLANGUAGELEARNERS 16 language, creating a non-threatening forum for writing that often leads to improvements in writing fluency among EnglishLanguage Learners. This ... an effective method for improving the writing performance of English LanguageLearners and aid in second languagelearners struggles to achieve academic success. DIALOGUE JOURNALS WITH ENGLISH ... ENGLISHLANGUAGELEARNERS 7 Introduction The number of students learning English as a foreign language increases yearly in the United States. There are approximately 9.9 million English Language...
... Guide for Secondary Teachers of Migrant EnglishLanguage Learners Every word or utterance in a second language is a step forward and shouldbe seen for what it accomplishes ratherthan for what ... Resource Guide for Secondary Teachers of Migrant EnglishLanguage Learners Most limited English proficient students speak an-other language in their homes. If you’ve ever stud-ied a foreign language, ... native language literacy than to embark imme-diately on English. 1The Help! Kit: A Resource Guide for Secondary Teachers of Migrant EnglishLanguage Learners Welcome to the Help! Kit for teachers...
... from for classroom teaching, thereby augmenting their efficiency in teaching English. IntroductionBenefits of Using Drama in the Language ClassroomMany a times the teaching of Englishlanguage ... communication, is unfortunately, neglected.An attractive alternative is teachinglanguage through drama because it gives a context for listening and meaningful language production, forcing the learners ... years of English teaching, the learners do not gain the confidence of using the language in and outside the class. Their output in the language is limited to writing run-of-the-mill answers for...
... intonation to deliver academic information using multiple sentence structures. STANDARD 2: Englishlanguagelearners will speak in Englishfor a variety of basic interpersonal ... from their denotative meaning , such as, “Break a leg!” STANDARD 2: Englishlanguagelearners will speak in Englishfor a variety of basic interpersonal and academic purposes, with fluency, ... and academic topics, using varied sentence types. STANDARD 2: Englishlanguagelearners will speak in Englishfor a variety of basic interpersonal and academic purposes, with fluency,...
... experienced in one language will be experienced in other languages.LIPKA, SIEGEL, AND VUKOVIC: LITERACY SKILLS OF ENGLISHLANGUAGELEARNERS 43with measures of English rhyme detection and English phoneme ... reading task (WRAT3; Wilkinson,1993), the Portugese -English RD, the Italian -English RD,and the Arabic -English RD performed much like the native English speakers with RD (Abu-Rabia & Siegel, ... LEARNING DISABILITIES IN ENGLISHLANGUAGE LEARNERS Finally, as is evident from our review, studies were notconsistent in their reporting of the level of proficiency infirst languagefor ELLs. Thus, it...
... interrelation of what, why,and how in Englishlanguage arts learning. Our stan-10 Standards for the EnglishLanguage ArtsFigure 1. An Interactive Model for the EnglishLanguage ArtsStandardsgrandfather. ... what we hope to accom-plish in doing so.2 Standards for the EnglishLanguage ArtsTHE NEED FOR STANDARDSIn defining standards for the Englishlanguage arts,we are motivated by three core beliefs:■ ... purposesof language use: for obtaining and communicatinginformation, for literary response and expression, for learning and reflection, and for problem solving andapplication. For Obtaining...
... relatively better perfor-mance in this task. For example, while in the parsing task ME with L2 regularization significantly outperforms ME with L1 regularization, their per-formance difference ... the other three better performing estimation methodsfor this model. The CMM is a probabilistic sequence model and the log-loss used by ME estimation is most natural for it; thus we limit the ... Gao, J., Suzuki, H., and Yu, B. 2006. Approximation lasso methods forlanguage modeling. In ACL. Goodman, J. 2004. Exponential priors for maximum entropy models. In NAACL. Johnson, M., Geman,...
... combination for i++ for ++if andforeachforeach for +++=endendendelse ifforeach+=endelse ifforeach+=endendforeach for +++=+=endendforeach for +++=+=endend for ++ for +++=+=+=endendendendreturnFigure ... input objects for each eval-uated kernel, (a) for HDAG, (b) for DAG and DSK’,and (c) for SSK’. Note, though DAG and DSK’treat the same input objects, their kernel calculation methods differ ... no neatformulation for generating feature vectors from thesemantic and grammatical structures inside texts.Kernel methods (Vapnik, 1995; Cristianini andShawe-Taylor, 2000) suitable for NLP...
... and expand ways for your students to use English. This is important because you, the teacher, are the primary Englishlanguage model. Englishlearners should have multiple English lan-guage ... Helping EnglishLanguageLearners Succeed16How they interact and the importance and prominence of particular elements are language- specic. Why is this useful information for a teacher? Your English ... material and visuals that support the language of the lesson.Helping EnglishLanguageLearners SucceedHelping English Language Learners SucceedCarmen Zuñiga Dunlap, Ph.D.and Evelyn Marino Weisman,...
... in that foreign language. Thus, the penalty for failure tocomprehend oral input in the foreign language is limited to poor grades in theforeign -language course. This is not the case for high ... tasks.Rationale for the StudyPositive results have been found in studies of listening strategyinstruction for foreign -language learners and for high school ELLs. Clearly,more information is needed ... classroom-based, longitudinal studyof foreign -language learners also provides strong evidence that both strategytraining and use are effective in helping languagelearners comprehend oralinput. Thompson...
... achievement for their Englishlanguage learners. Teach-achievement for their Englishlanguage learners. Teach-achievement for their Englishlanguage learners. Teach-achievement for their Englishlanguage ... their teaching of Englishlanguage learners. improve their teaching of Englishlanguage learners. improve their teaching of Englishlanguage learners. eir top choices included second language ... How Well are California’s EnglishLearners Mastering English? How Well are California’s EnglishLearners Mastering English? How Well are California’s EnglishLearners Mastering English? UC Linguistic...