Understanding Basic Language Access

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Understanding Basic Language Access

• Presented by
• Elizabeth Jiménez
• April 16, 2008
• http//aplussummit.lausd.net

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English Language Development is a Continuum

• BICS AND CALP

• Comprehensible Input

• What does SDAIE look like?

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Conversation vs. Academic Language
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BICS - Basic Interpersonal
Communication Skills

• CONTEXT EMBEDDED
• Face to Face Conversation
• Learning a new song in class
• Playing tag on the playground
• CONTEXT REDUCED
• Telephone conversation
• Singing along to the radio
• Cross-word puzzle

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Cognitive Academic Language Proficiency - CALP

• CONTEXT EMBEDDED
• Science Experiment demonstration
• History Simulation
• CONTEXT REDUCED
• Lecture
• Textbook (no graphics)

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English Language Development is a Continuum

• BICS and CALP

• COMPREHENSIBLE INPUT

• What does SDAIE look like?

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Comprehensible Input

• Visuals and Gestures
• Frontloading Vocabulary
• Careful enunciation, repetition, restating
• Realia, Modeling and Demonstration
• Objectives for Content and Language
• Graphic Organizers
• Scaffolding background building, cognates,
  frames,

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English Language Development is a Continuum

• BICS and CALP

• Comprehensible Input

• WHAT DOES SDAIE LOOK LIKE?

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English Language Development has 4 interrelated
domains

• Listening, Speaking, Reading, Writing

• LES/NES
• LEP
• EL

• Linguistic Contrastive Analysis
• a) OCR Tools
• b) writing sample

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Language is age context dependent

• Who has the advantage, older or younger
• English Learners?

• Language transfer strength to strength

• Stunted L1 Stunted L2

• Idioms, Sayings, Multiple-Meanings,
• Humor

• Build a Curriculum Design

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What is this?
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Television Watching Pyramid
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Its not what you said, its how you said it.

• SEMANTIC
• good..gone for goodGoods and Services
• SYNTAX
• good looking vs. looking good
• LANGUAGE FUNCTION
• How we disagree with someones opinion

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1st 2nd Languages are Interdependent

• You only learn to read once

• Cognates (and other) language patterns can
  accelerate acquisition of academic language and
  content

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Spanish Cognates
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Language is the Carrier of Culture

• Socio-Cultural Factors

• Value messages

• Americanizing names

• Beliefs and Expectations
• a) CELDT testing in the Fall
• b) 30 of LAUSD 9th grade ELs repeat
• 9th grade
• c) 14 of African American 9th grade
• students repeat 9th grade