instructional methods and program models for serving english language learners

... learner Languages: L1 First language L2 Second language TL Target language FL Foreign language Programs: ESL English as a second language EFL English as a foreign language ESOL English for speakers ... speakers of other languages TESOL Teaching English to speakers of other languages TESL Teaching English as a second language ESP English for specifi c purposes EAP English for academic purposes Many ... schooling for our children. We conduct applied research and evaluation, and provide technical assis- tance and informational resources to connect research and practice, build knowledge and skills, and...

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... relationships between achievement and school and family variables, 7. to reinforce the call for high academic standards and educational reform, and 8. to argue for system and school accountability. The ... policies for including and accommodating students with disabilities; Lynne Sacks and Laura Golden provided similar information about states’ policies for English- language learners. Policies for Students ... school districts, and states to set stan- dards and report annual progress for English- language learners and students with disabilities [Sec. (c) (VII)]. Rewards and corrective actions for schools are...

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... Science, Foreign Languages 26 (2010) 171-180 171 A brief comparison of Vietnamese intonation and English intonation and its implications for teaching English intonation to Vietnamese EFL learners ... progressive and systematic training, and from practice and language use. 5. Conclusion This study has compared several intonational features of Vietnamese and those of English, and provided ... 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...

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... religions) and struc- tural constraints such as possible date formats for “Birthdate” and “Deathdate”. The rows with sub- script “RH02”in Table 4 shows the performance of this Ravichandran and Hovy ... transitive and latent models are all stand-alone models, they can complement each other in combination as they provide relatively orthogonal sources of informa- tion. To combine these models, we perform ... a cleaner set of gold truth, and is similar to an ap- proach utilizing trained annotators for marking up and extracting the factual information in a stan- dard format. For consistency, only the...

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... return a sequence of length one and they are all nonmonotonic, and therefore blocking. Continuous count and sum are monotonic and nonblocking, and thus suitable for continuous queries. Order! ... pro- gram and its RA equivalent defines the two queries pUq and coalscp, the first on P and Q and the second on P only. We will refer to them as the coalesce query and the until query, and observe ... re- lational algebra (RA) and SQL in supporting sequence and stream queries, and present ef- fective query language and data model enrich- ments to deal with them. We begin by ob- serving the well-known...

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... California English Language Development Test (CELDT), and enrolled in transition English lan- guage development and/ or standard language arts classes. (Note: Only 7% of SAUSD students are in English- only ... writing assessment, language arts GPA, performance on the reading and total language portions of standardized tests, and performance on statewide high-stakes, on-demand reading and writing assessments? Context ... students who are English language learners, Vaughn and Klinger (2004) state, Despite the growth in culturally and linguistically diverse populations, and the obvious need to understand instructional...

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... involvement include program costs for training efforts and committee discussion time and participation costs such as time for learning and ensuring that participant members can stand behind their ... recognized and distributed standards for detection of their disease to inform physicians of what to look for. These VHAs believe that the lack of this information is a disadvantage for public funding for ... are most useful in exploring and understanding what and how people think, feel, and behave. While instructive and suggestive for the development of hypotheses, ideas, strategy, and future research, the...

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... purposes of language use: for obtaining and communicating information, for literary response and expression, for learning and reflection, and for problem solving and application. For Obtaining and Communicating Information Nonfiction, ... what, why, and how in English language arts learning. Our stan- 10 Standards for the English Language Arts Figure 1. An Interactive Model for the English Language Arts Standards grandfather. ... so. 2 Standards for the English Language Arts THE NEED FOR STANDARDS In defining standards for the English language arts, we are motivated by three core beliefs: ■ First, we believe that standards...

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... between 0.96 and 1.17. Some trained translation probabilities are shown for the unigram and headword models in table 2. The formal language words have captured reason- able English words for their ... niques for modeling clump generation are n-gram language models (Miller et al., 1995; Levin and Pier- accini, 1995; Epstein, 1996), and headword language models (Epstein, 1996). A bigram language ... damental asymmetry between the natural language and the unambiguous formal language. Most no- tably, one formal language word may frequently cor- respond to whole English phrases. We added the "clump",...

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... available for a variety of purposes. Introduction 2 Section 1 Understanding English language learners 5 English language learners (ELLs) in Ontario schools 5 Canadian-born English language learners ... Ontario curriculum for English language learners 49 Differentiating instruction for English language learners 49 Program adaptations: Modifications and accommodations 50 Describing language behaviours ... can do and are learning to do 51 Making language and content accessible for English language learners 55 Strategies to support beginning English language learners 57 On-going strategies for supporting...

Ngày tải lên: 10/03/2014, 05:20

... among English Language Learners. This research and literature suggest that dialogue journals could serve as an effective method for improving the writing performance of English Language Learners ... WITH ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNERS 13 Dialogue Journals with English Language Learners Experts (Miller, 2007; Peyton, 1990) have come to view the use of dialogue journals with English Language Learners ... ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNERS 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...

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... Guide for Secondary Teachers of Migrant English Language Learners Every word or utterance in a second language is a step forward and should be seen for what it accomplishes rather than for what ... this kit and/ or your district ESL staff about how language is acquired and what are recom- mended instructional and assessment strategies. ãAdvocate for more ESL staff and teacher training for your ... of Migrant English Language Learners When a student’s native language is used correctly in educational programs, it is of tremendous ben- efit. It can catalyze and accelerate second language acquisition....

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... experiences and knowledge as English language learners in methods courses that we teach in teacher education programs in the United States. We both were born and raised in Poland, and share ... her individual journey into English as her second language as well as the ways the two languages and cultures, her home language and culture and the new language and culture she was acquiring, ... learn a great deal about second language acquisition and effective pedagogy for English language learners through pre-service teacher education programs and in-service professional development...

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... concurrent performance on tests of English language proficiency and academic achievement in the validity of administrating large-scale content assessments to English language learners: An investigation ... assessment study. Language Testing and Evaluation Unit, Centre for English Language Teacher Education, University of Warwick. Roy-Campell, Z.M. and Qorro, M.A.S. (1997), Language crises in ... included reading programme and the in-service course for English teachers and school inspectors. Although materials were produced and distributed to schools in order to assist language teachers...

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