Supporting Beginning Language Learners

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Supporting Beginning Language Learners

• Education 453

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Functional Language

• Basic Vocabulary
• Simple script
• Survival expressions
• First and second language

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Visual Support

• Pictures
• Manipulatives and physical objects
• Realia

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Environment/Activities

• A rich print environment
• Copying and Labeling
• Physical activity
• James Asher The Total Physical Response
  Approach
• Choral work, songs, and role plays

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Experience-Based Learning

• Hands-on experiences outside the classroom
• Language experience stories
• Listening to stories on tape
• Winitz and Reeds self-instructional program and
  Winitzs learnables
• Games and puzzles
• Lexical approach Michael Lewis