... method for improving the writing performance of English LanguageLearners and aid in second languagelearners struggles to achieve academic success. DIALOGUE JOURNALS WITH ENGLISHLANGUAGELEARNERS ... 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 ... has presented an analysis of all data collected for the purpose of measuring the effects of dialogue journals on the writing performance of 4th grade EnglishLanguage Learners. The next section...
... 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 ... 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, you surely ... Guide for Secondary Teachers of Migrant EnglishLanguage Learners Studentsat HispanicDropout ProjectStudent LeadersForum, New York:“My life, my heritagehas been a cycle of poverty, of goals...
... language Programs: ESL English as a second language EFL English as a foreign language ESOL Englishfor speakers of other languagesTESOL Teaching English to speakers of other languagesTESL Teaching English ... 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: ... from research on a wider sampling of L2 English writing students.PART I Approaches to Writing Instruction for Adolescent EnglishLanguage Learners A DISCUSSION OF RECENT RESEARCH AND PRACTICE...
... published studies of the English literacy of children inCanada who are Englishlanguagelearners (ELLs) with the goal of understanding the read-ing development of ELLs and characteristics of reading ... experienced in one language will be experienced in other languages. LIPKA, SIEGEL, AND VUKOVIC: LITERACY SKILLS OFENGLISHLANGUAGELEARNERS 43with measures ofEnglish rhyme detection and English phoneme ... 2years in full-day Englishlanguage schools by the time of the study. ELLs had continued exposure to and education intheir native language, although English was the language of instruction in school....
... 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 ... limited English proficient by school officials andreceiving academic instruction in Englishfor three years or more were to beincluded in the assessment. [Those] receiving instruction in English for...
... 51Making language and content accessible forEnglishlanguagelearners 55Strategies to support beginning Englishlanguagelearners 57On-going strategies for supporting Englishlanguagelearners ... Ontario curriculum for Englishlanguagelearners 49Differentiating instructionforEnglishlanguagelearners 49Program adaptations: Modifications and accommodations 50Describing language behaviours ... support Englishlanguagelearners 17Building a whole-school approach 18Roles and responsibilities in supporting Englishlanguage 18Equity and inclusion in programs forEnglishlanguage learners...
... process of developing their Englishlanguage proficiency via instruction in their English as a Second Language (ESL) class. Unfortunately, instruction in effectivelistening strategies is often ... transfer of strategies to other contexts and tasks.Rationale for the StudyPositive results have been found in studies of listening strategy instruction for foreign -language learners and for high ... learners of all proficiency levels” (Ross & Rost, 1991, p. 266).These studies, while very important, focused on listening strategy instruction for foreign -language learners. Typically, foreign-language...
... for the variety of needs ofEnglish were often “on call” for the variety of needs ofEnglish were often “on call” for the variety of needs ofEnglish were often “on call” for the variety of ... the English language profi ciency of all California’s Englishlanguage language profi ciency of all California’s Englishlanguage language profi ciency of all California’s Englishlanguage learners, ... achievement for their Englishlanguage learners. Teach-achievement for their Englishlanguage learners. Teach-achievement for their Englishlanguage learners. Teach-achievement for their English language...
... academic discourse, such as in the delivery of an oral presentation. STANDARD 2: Englishlanguagelearners will speak in Englishfor a variety of basic interpersonal and academic purposes, ... intonation to deliver academic information using multiple sentence structures. STANDARD 2: Englishlanguagelearners will speak in Englishfor a variety of basic interpersonal and academic ... STANDARD 2: Englishlanguagelearners will speak in Englishfor a variety of basic interpersonal and academic purposes, with fluency, using...
... Computational Theory of Prose Style for Natural Language Generation David D. McDonald and James D. Pnstejovsky Department of Computer and Information Science University of M~,=.~chnsetts at ... looked at our treatment of four of the five points which we said at the onset of this paper had to b,~ considered by any theory of prose style. The fifth point, the kinds of information stylistic ... the basis of how it can be realized. The total set of alternative phrasings for an information unit are prccomputed and stored within the linguistic component (i.e the third stage of the process)...
... goal of college and career readiness for all students. 5. It is also beyond the scope of the standards to define the full range of supports appropriate forEnglishlanguagelearners and for ... Herrington Professor of English, University of Massachusetts Amherst Lorretta Holloway Associate Professor of English, Framingham State College Gregory Hurray Director ofEnglishLanguage Arts, ... March 2011 Language Standards Pre-K–5 [L] The following standards for grades pre-k–5 offer a focus forinstruction each year to help ensure that students gain adequate mastery of a range of skills...
... explanation. InstructionforEnglishlearners should include attention to the use of pragmatics, or how native speakers use English in social contexts.These ve structures oflanguage phonology, ... 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 models ... line of work. Helping EnglishLanguageLearners Succeed 16How they interact and the importance and prominence of particular elements are language- specic. Why is this useful information for...
... 2010.Multi-prototype vector-space modelsof wordmeaning. In Human Language Technologies: The2010 Annual Conference of the North AmericanChapter of the Association for Computational Lin-guistics.Dan ... and Eugenie Giesbrecht. 2010.Compositional matrix-space modelsof language. In Proceedings of the 48th Annual Meeting of theAssociation for Computational Linguistics, pages907–916.Richard Socher, ... some de-sired information, which amounts to a form of in-ference. Our work can be seen as an extension of this notion to distributional semantic models witha more general notion of representational...
... pleased with the eects of wearing catnip-scented shoes.ã demonstrates exemplary command of the conventions of standard written English. COMMON CORE STATE STANDARDS forENGLISHLANGUAGE ARTS & ... rest of his life. No one can take away his love for Manolin or memories of what once was, and because of this, no one can ever truly defeat Santiago. COMMON CORE STATE STANDARDS forENGLISHLANGUAGE ... as by adults, so it is nearly flawless in terms of observing the conventions of standard written English. COMMON CORE STATE STANDARDS forENGLISHLANGUAGE ARTS & LITERACY IN HISTORY/SOCIAL...
... The number ofEnglishlanguagelearners has increased considerably in the US. In the 2003-2004 school year, 5.5 million school-age children were Englishlanguagelearners an increase of nearly ... acquire language naturally only when the context becomes meaningful for us as learners. There are many strategies for making linguistic input more comprehensible forEnglishlanguage learners ... types oflanguage proficiencies: Basic Interpersonal Communication Skills (BICS) and Cognitive Academic Language Proficiency (CALP). BICS proficiency encompasses the language needed for social...