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Teaching Content to English Language Learners

Teaching Content to English Language Learners. Focus on Business English. 3 Goals for Content-Area Instruction. Content Goals —“conceptual learning of knowledge and skills required by the subject matter”

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Teaching Content to English Language Learners

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  1. Teaching Content to English Language Learners Focus on Business English

  2. 3 Goals for Content-Area Instruction Content Goals—“conceptual learning of knowledge and skills required by the subject matter” Language Goals—“address learning the precise vocabulary words and sentence patterns needed to communicate content” General Skills—“means attaining study skills that promote both language and content learning” “Communicate in the language of the subject and about the subject (construct meaning)” (Hernandez 2003)

  3. Excellent Resource

  4. Teach Strategies for Studying

  5. Combining Strategies • Think-Alouds and Modeling Purpose—the step-by-step process involved in completing many types of activities • How does your classmate’s brain work • Actual examples

  6. Students Share Think-Alouds and Modeling Your student correctly infers information from text EXAMPLE: “That would be a risky company to invest in.” • ASK: Where did you find the information that helped you with that? Your student solves a complex problem. • ASK: How did you figure out that answer? Your student presents an informed opinion on a topic. • ASK: What information led you to this opinion? Your student gets a good grade on a test. • ASK: How exactly did you study for this test.

  7. Language Goals Content-obligatory—language essential to an understanding of content material Content-compatible—language that can be taught naturally within the course of teaching content, language that must be practiced (academic word list) (grammar) (conversational) According to Snow, Met and Genesee (1989)

  8. Stock Market—Finance Content • New York Stock Exchange • NASDAQ • S&P 500 • Bulls and Bears • soared, plummeted, flattened, leveled out, rebounded, recovered, forecast • present perfect, past, future, conditional • Which is content-obligatory? • Which is content compatible?

  9. Content-Compatible—Functions & Forms Example:Investigates the Fall of Beach Balls Functions needed to discuss the article? Summarize Interpret/React Describing Forms needed to summarize, interpret, use vocabulary? Complex Sentences Cause and Effect (due to, as a result of, led to) Metaphorical/content-compatible vocabulary Reading Log Form

  10. Academic Resource: A Conceptual Framework for the Integration of Language and Content in Second/Foreign Language Instruction Marguerite Ann Snow, Myriam Met, Fred Genesee

  11. Marketing Obligatory & Compatible Language Obligatory Compatible launch advertising campaign social media competitors market share tagline: “Think Different” tweak vs. revamp collocations differentiated from fixed phrases “keep up with demand” “ramp up” “have a hit on their hands” comparatives sleeker, smoother, more powerful, supreme (from car desciptions)

  12. Marketing Lesson VIDEO 4 P's Orabrush (promotion) Subway (price) Food Truck (place) Tee Shirts into Blankets (product)

  13. Content-Obligatory: promotion, price, place, product Content-Compatible: launch, debut, roll out breakthrough, innovative, edgy, cutting edge

  14. 4 P’s exercise ZhuZhuPets

  15. Resources for Content PowerPoints Free Presentations: ppt format & interactive

  16. Scaffolding “in order to learn a person must be active, and the activity must be partly familiar and partly new, so that attention can be focused on useful changes and knowledge can be increased. Van der Lier (1996) as cited in Gibbons (2003) ed”

  17. Too much or too little teacher talk?? Too close a match between “teacher talk” and students’, ss won’t learn enough. Too great a distance between “teacher talk” and students’, ss won’t understand enough. Interaction between teacher and learner is key. (Cummins 1996 as cited in Gibbons 2003)

  18. Activate learners’ background knowledge in the area of study: KWL What do I know? What do I want to know? What will I learn KWL Worksheets

  19. Viral Marketing KWL Worksheet

  20. Teaching Content Finding the medium • Current News/Articles MARKETING: Viral Marketing CBS NEWS Story video and transcript “Old Spice” United Breaks Guitars Evian Babies FINANCE: • Tour of Wall Street • Worksheets • Practice—Virtual Stock Market • Brainpopfor stocks and shares REAL-LIFE examples Warren Buffett

  21. Graphic Organizers Link to a variety of graphic organizers Concept/Event Map—connects concepts and events good for current events

  22. Additional Academic Resources Mediating Language Learning: Teacher Interactions with ESL Students in a Content-Based Classroom Pauline Gibbons

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