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Welcome to TELL
Syllabus: Understanding Language Acquisition
Explanation of the Template:
Total Points Sheet
Session 1: Language and Identity
LA 1.1: Did You Know?
LA 1.2: My Language Experience
LA 1.3: Whose Language Is Correct?
LA 1.4: Accents and Dialects - What Do You Hear?
AVG 1.1: Membership in a Speech Community Segment
LA 1.5: Questions We Have
HW 1.1: Reflect and Implement
HW 1.2: Honoring Language Difference
HW 1.3: Everyday Ethical Decisions
HW 1.4: Read the Wright Book, Ch. 1
HW 1.5: Select a Student to Study
HW 1.6: The Harvard Dialect Survey
Session 2: Who are Our ELLs? Defining Needs and Strengths
LA 2.1: Cummins Review and Discuss
LA 2.2: Who Are Our ELLs
LA 2.3: Getting to Know a Second Language Learner
LA 2.4: Providing Evidence / Collective Expertise
LA 2.5: Makoto's Writing Analysis
HW 2.1: Reflect and Implement
HW 2.2: Models and Systems - Part 1
HW 2.3 Read the Definitions of Program Models
HW 2.4 Models and Systems
HW 2.5 Factors and Needs
HW 2.6 Learning about L2 Learners
Session 3: Current Realities: ESL Programs and Practices
LA 3.1Jigsaw Wright Reading
LA 3.2 Programs and Practices in My Local Setting
LA 3.3 Content Area Literacy in SLA
LA 3.4 Supports and Constraints for Makoto
LA 3.5 Communication, Pattern, & Variability
HW 3.1 Applying My Learning
HW 3.2 Learning about Input
HW 3.3 Input: Teacher Work
HW 3.4 Knowing My Second Language Learner
HW 3.5 Input: Teacher Work
Session 4: Creating Comprehensible Input
LA 4.1 Critical Research on Input: Jigsaw Reading
LA 4.2 Feedback About Knowing my Second Language Learner
LA 4.3 Comprehensible Input
LA 4.4 Modifying Oral Input
LA 4.5 Input and Vocabulary Development
HW 4.1 Applying My Learning
HW 4.2 Understanding Interaction
HW 4.3 Promoting Oral Language in the Classroom
HW 4.4 Search and Final
HW 4.5 Classroom Observation and Analysis
Session 5: The Role of Interaction
LA 5.1 Feedback About Knowing My EL Student
LA 5.2 Role of Interaction in English Language Development
LA 5.3 Negotiating Meaning Through Interaction: Gallery Walk
LA 5.4 Classroom Parables of Cultural Interaction Patterns
LA 5.5 Strategy Search Report
HW 5.1 Learning a New Language
HW 5.2 Learning From Student Writing
Session 6: Stages of Development and Errors and Feedback
LA 6.1 Video Segment 7.1 on Stages of Development: Pattern
LA 6.2 Charting Treasure: Mapping Stages of Development
LA 6.3 Patterns: Errors and Feedback
LA 6.4 Error Analysis of Student Writing
LA 6.5 Table Problems
HW 6.1 Reflection
HW 6.2 Analysis of Student Work
HW 6.3 What does it Mean to Know a Language
HW 6.4 Variability in Learning a Language
Session 7: Proficiencies and Performances
LA 7.1 Discussing Variability
LA 7.2 Readings about Variability
LA 7.3 Variability Matrix
LA 7.4 Getting to Know English Language Learners
LA 7.5 Understanding the Final Display
HW 7.1 Reflection
HW 7.2 Final Project
Session 8: Displays of Professional Development
AVG 8.1 Classroom Strategies: Action as Advocacy
LA 8.1 Examining Displays of Professional Development
LA 8.2 Discussing My Learning

LA 7.1 Discussing Variability

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Learning Outcome Pedagogical Intent Student Position

Employ theories of acquisition of a primary and new language in instruction

Assessment: 25 pts.

TA: 30 Minutes

Teachers can apply their learning about Variability (Types of Proficiencies/ Types of Performances) and individual differences in language learning om determining what next steps will push them to higher-level performance in the secondlanguage.

Students have learned about variability, proficiencies, and performances. They will now clarify their study individually by participating in a whole-class discussion.

Instructions

  1. Take out your 6.4 homework including the readings from Wright, video segments 8.1 and 8.2.
  2. You were assigned to look at a particular student. Join a table group with others who looked at the same critical incident that you did.
  3. Keep your groups to three or four.
  4. In your table groups,compare the categories you selected with each other and explain why you chose those in relationship to your student.
  5. Next, identify ‘sticking points’ you had as you viewed the video, read the material and studied the categories in relationship to your student. Write them down. Discuss them together.
  6. As the facilitator begins the class wide discussion, be prepared to share the sticking points as questions and the categories you selected and your reasoning behind them.

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