Week 7 Home Learning

_________________________ are students who have been enrolled in U.S. schools for 6 or more years, and are stalled in progressing in English proficiency, and struggling academically.

The quality, quantity, and ___________ of programs and instruction ELLs receive can move them towards English proficiency and content mastery or regulate them to long term status.

Lack of _________ secondary school programs and educator training leaves LTELLs even further behind.

Emerging practices that _________ address

language, literacy, and academic gaps show great

promise for meeting the unique needs of Long

Term English Language Learners.

7 basic principles for meeting the needs of long term ELLs:

Answer explanation

1. urgency

2. distinct needs

3. language, literacy, academics

4. home language

5. rigor, relevance, relationships

6. integration

7. active engagement

Learners need to understand what is said to them and what they read; Krashen refers to this need as ________

Learners need to use the language themselves; Swain refers to this as ______________

Learners need opportunities to build on the resources of their ______________

Second language learning is facilitated when students are using the new language to learn other things, such as _________

Initiation, response, and evaluation are part of the _____________