Lang. Acquisition Unit 8

One form of submersion Education says that …

• minority language students are inserted into the major schools and give instruction in the majority language, disregarding their mother tongue.

• minority language children are taken out from conventional classes in order to provide them compensatory lessons in the majority language.

• majority and minority language speakers receive instruction completely separated

If you say that there are International Schools spread all over the world and teachers come from various parts of the world too and students receive instruction in English and another majority language, you say that this is:

•   Bilingual Education in Majority Languages

• Immersion Bilingual Education

• Heritage Language

This is one weak form of bilingual education.

•    Mainstream Education with Foreign Language Teaching

• Two-way or Dual Language Bilingual Education

• Maintenance or Heritage Language Bilingual Education

The Two-way or Dual Language Bilingual Education says that…

• equal number of minority and majority language students are in the same classroom and the two languages are used equally so that neither becomes dominant.

• children are taught in their native or heritage language. Sometimes the majority language is used too.

• the regular curriculum is taught in the target language.

According to Smith, the term learning disability refers to…

• A disorder in one or more of the basic psychological processes involved in understanding or in using language.

• learning problems that are primarily the result of visual, hearing, motor disabilities, mental retardation, emotional disturbance.

• struggling learners due to linguistic differences as well as difficulties with second language acquisition.

According to Rodriguez, the language to be used with bilingual learners with disabilities is Both.

• True

• False

One of these aspects among others must be considered in addition to social and cognitive development as standardized vocabulary tests: 

• Linguistic background

• Gender

• Social status

The vocabulary level can show achievement in other areas of the language like morphological and grammatical development.

• True

• False

Vocabulary has shown to correlate highly with these two areas of language development such as the morphological and grammatical development.

• True

• False

To assess ELLs with Special needs, it should be done without bias and this should include intellectual performance assessments, functional behavioral assessments and …………

• assessments to identify learning disabilities.

• B.    morphological and grammatical assessments.

• C.    Cultural aspects related to family background.