... language
Programs:
ESL English as a second language
EFL English as a foreign language
ESOL Englishfor speakers of other languages
TESOL TeachingEnglish to speakers of
other languages
TESL TeachingEnglish ... speaker/speaking
NELB Non -English language background
LEP Limited English profi cient/profi ciency
ELL Englishlanguage learner
Languages:
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 with
disabilities; Lynne Sacks and Laura Golden provided similar information
about 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, ...
... 51
Making language and content accessible forEnglishlanguagelearners 55
Strategies to support beginning Englishlanguagelearners 57
On-going strategies for supporting Englishlanguagelearners ... available for a variety of
purposes.
Introduction 2
Section 1 Understanding Englishlanguagelearners 5
English languagelearners (ELLs) in Ontario schools 5
Canadian-born Englishlanguagelearners ...
Considerationsfor EnglishLanguage Learners: Delivering a Continuum of Services.
Caslon Publishing, 2007. p.40
Section 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 should
be seen for what it accomplishes rather
than 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.
1
The 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.
Introduction
Benefits of Using Drama in the Language Classroom
Many 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 43
with 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 not
consistent in their reporting of the level of proficiency in
first languagefor ELLs. Thus, it...
... interrelation of what, why,
and how in Englishlanguage arts learning. Our stan-
10 Standards for the EnglishLanguage Arts
Figure 1. An Interactive Model for the EnglishLanguage Arts
Standards
grandfather. ... what we hope to accom-
plish in doing so.
2 Standards for the EnglishLanguage Arts
THE NEED FOR STANDARDS
In defining standards for the Englishlanguage arts,
we are motivated by three core beliefs:
■ ... 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...
... relatively better perfor-
mance in this task. For example, while in the
parsing task ME with L
2
regularization significantly
outperforms ME with L
1
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,...
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Figure ... 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 neat
formulation for generating feature vectors from the
semantic and grammatical structures inside texts.
Kernel methods (Vapnik, 1995; Cristianini and
Shawe-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 Succeed
16
How 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 Succeed
Helping
English Language
Learners
Succeed
Carmen Zuñiga Dunlap, Ph.D.
and Evelyn Marino Weisman,...
... in that foreign language. Thus, the penalty for failure to
comprehend oral input in the foreign language is limited to poor grades in the
foreign -language course. This is not the case for high ... tasks.
Rationale for the Study
Positive results have been found in studies of listening strategy
instruction for foreign -language learners and for high school ELLs. Clearly,
more information is needed ... classroom-based, longitudinal study
of foreign -language learners also provides strong evidence that both strategy
training and use are effective in helping languagelearners comprehend oral
input. 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...