Teaching for Biliteracy: Chapter #1 Foundations in T for B

Bridging involves the use of:

• Teaching in both languages at the same time

• cross-linguistic strategies and lead to the development of metalinguistic awareness

• comparison and contrasting

• dictado, así se dice and cognates

Teaching for biliteracy in Spanish and English in the United States involves complex processes that are informed by:

• the Three pillars of Dual Language Education

• the Guding Principles of Dual Immersioni

• teaching standards

• fundamental sociolinguistic premises

Is the instructional moment in teaching for biliteracy when teachers bring the two languages together, guiding students to engage in contrastive analysis of the two languages and to transfer the academic content they have learned in one language to the other language.

• the cognates

• the bridge

• mini lesson

• Launch, Explore and Summarize

Biliteracy instruction includes the broad range of teaching and learning activities involving reading and writing that occur in Spanish and English across the curriculum

• False

• True

• Spanish reading and writing activities are only conducive to teach Spanish

• English reading and writing activities are only conducive to teach English

Who embrace a holistic, multilingual perspective on teaching, learning, and assessment that sees the two (or more) languages that each student speaks as complementary parts of that student's developing linguistic repertoire?

• Ineffective biliteracy educators

• Educators who use Spanish instruction during Spanish time and do not code switch between languages

• Educators who use English instruction during English time and do not code switch between languages

• Effective biliteracy educators

What is the language allocation plan for a 90/10 Dual Immersion model of instruction?

• Tk-1st: 90/10

  2nd: 80/20

  3rd: 85/15

  4th: 70/30

  5th: 60/40

• Tk-1st: 90/10

  2nd: 80/20

  3rd: 70/30

  4th: 60/40

  5th: 50/50

• Tk-1st: 85/15

  2nd: 80/20

  3rd: 85/15

  4th: 70/30

  5th: 60/40

• Tk-1st: 85/15

  2nd: 75/25

  3rd: 85/15

  4th: 60/40

  5th: 50/50