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Enhancing Classroom Engagement through Native Language Activities

This guide, authored by Liliane Vannoy, a Dual Language Immersion Specialist, emphasizes the importance of using native languages in the classroom to enhance learning. It outlines various activities and teaching strategies that foster cooperative learning, peer engagement, and social interaction among students. Drawing on Krashen's Language Acquisition Theory, the guide encourages educators to create welcoming environments and incorporate native language resource centers. Activities like writing letters, creating symbols, and music discussions are suggested to support vocabulary development and engagement.

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Enhancing Classroom Engagement through Native Language Activities

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  1. Native Language in the classroom Liliane Vannoy Dual Language Immersion Specialist TPS

  2. Introduction • My Name Means… Describe yourself to your group by using words that start with the letters of your name. • Loud • Inventive • Lively • Independent • Active • Nerdy • Energetic

  3. Reflection • My name means … is a great activity that can be done in the native language. • Value the learner by treasuring the language.

  4. Native Language in the classroom

  5. Learning Theory • Krashen’s popular theory of second language acquisition (1994) : Language is best acquired informally.

  6. Teaching Implications • Teachers should create warm, welcoming classroom environments. • Teachers should use strategies that motivate students to communicate with each other. • Teacher should promote social interaction and peer engagement.

  7. Teaching implication • Teachers should incorporate activities that support social interaction, using strategies such as buddies, pair shares and cooperative grouping. (Lily Wong Fillmore 1979)

  8. Cooperative Learning • It gives students the opportunity to interact in a social and academic level. • Cooperative activities stimulates vocabulary development.

  9. Native Language Pairs

  10. Native language pairs • Pair students based on their native language. • Pair students with high proficiency level with middle level and middle level with low level proficiency.

  11. Native Language communities

  12. Peer Engagement • The desire to make friends motivates children and that friendship scaffolds their language acquisition. (Lily Wong Fillmore 1979)

  13. Reflection • Learning is social. • How often do you use cooperative learning in your class? • How often do you let students help each other using their native language ?

  14. Native Language Space

  15. Native Language Resource Center • It is a place designated for resources and material. Your “ foreign” library. • Dictionaries • Translators • Computers

  16. Native Language Center • It is a place in the classroom where the students can do activities in their native language. • Examples of activities: listen to music, read a book, work a cross word puzzle, play games. • Students can contribute to this center with their own materials and resources.

  17. Native Language work Center • It is a place that allows students to complete content related activities in their language. • Students can create content related activities. • Students can create labels for class objects. • Students can create a poster about a lesson topic. • Students can write letters, poetry, journals. • Students can translate certain things for teachers or school.

  18. Reflection • Do you have any of these spaces in your class? • Can you create any of these spaces in your classroom?

  19. Native language activities

  20. Thought Box • Students would write any thoughts, concerns, or questions and place them in a box. • It can have a content or a lesson purpose.

  21. Foreign correspondence • Students write a letter or a card to a person at school or in the classroom that can read in their native language. • Students can exchange letters or cards.

  22. Native Language Alphabet • Students can create an alphabet to represent the letters. • Students can create an alphabet related to a content area. • Students can create an alphabet related to a lesson topic. • Students can create an alphabet related to a book. • Students can create an alphabet representing their country.

  23. Native Language Day • Students are invited to greet the classroom. • Students can teach some simple commands, numbers, food and other simple vocabulary words. • Students can teach cognates.

  24. Native Language Music Time • Students bring their favorite music. • Students can try to talk about the meaning of the song.

  25. Foreign word wall • Words related to their culture. • Words related to their country • Words related to a theme, a holiday, a special occasion.

  26. translation word wall • Words related to content or lesson objective. • Choose words that are essential vocabulary for a lesson. • Ask students to translate the word in their language. • Ask students to translate high frequency words.

  27. Translation word wall

  28. Reflection • What was you favorite activity? • What activity can you incorporate in your class?

  29. Activity • List the reservations and concerns about using native language in the classroom. • List the benefits of using native language in the classroom.

  30. “The limits of my language means the limits of my world.” ― Ludwig Wittgenstein

  31. Contact Information • vannoli@tulsaschools.org

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