• Understanding Language Acquisition
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  • Session 1: Language and Identity
  • Session 2: Who are Our ELLs? Defining Needs and Strengths
  • Session 3: Current Realities: ESL Programs and Practices
  • Session 4: Creating Comprehensible Input
  • Session 5: The Role of Interaction
  • Session 6: Stages of Development and Errors and Feedback
  • Session 7: Proficiencies and Performances
  • Session 8: Displays of Professional Development
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  • HW 4.3 Promoting Oral Language in the Classroom

    • HW 4.3 Promoting Oral Language in the Classroom

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    Learning Outcome Pedagogical Intent Student Position

    Acquire and employ knowledge of language as a system and the ways in which languages are different and similar.

    Assessment: 50 pts.

    Due: Session 5

    Teachers use case studies of their students to understand individual needs using WIDA proficiency levels.

    Students will acquire and employ knowledge of language as a system and the ways in which languages are different and similar.

    Instructions

    1. Read the seventh chapter in the Wright book.
    2. As you read, take notes using provided note sheet to be submitted in session 5 regarding what you learned, relearned, and unlearned from your reading.
    3. Select five ideas presented in this chapter that you would like to incorporate into your instruction of English learners and include why you think it will work andhow you would fit it in.
    4. Also, be prepared to discuss this chapter in session 5.

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    Access it online or download it at https://open.byu.edu/understanding_language_acquisition/hw_43_promoting_oral.