ELL EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

What is the teachers role/strategies in helping students understand the role of language and culture in instruction? - Answer- The teacher needs to promote classroom discourse and create a good learner. Teachers need to understand how culture affects schooling What is classroom discourse? - Answer- anything dealing with the classroom What is the teachers role/stategies in helping students understandtypical U.S. classroom instructional patterns? - Answer- the teacher invites an interaction by asking a question, a student responds, then the teacher follows with evaluation. Teachers use "teacher talk" What is teacher talk? - Answer- modify the way you talk, loud enough, enunicating sounds, slow it down What is IRE sequence/pattern? - Answer- Look up What is the teacher's role/stategies in promoting the learner's use of cognitive academic language? - Answer- Teachers use scaffolding to support CALP. teachers encourage ELL's to report to themselves for practice What is scaffolding? - Answer- Adjusting the support offered during a teaching session to fit the child's current level of performance, building up the schemata(unit of knowledge that the student needs to learn) What is CALP? - Answer- Cognitive Academic Language Proficiency, consists language skills that allow people to communicate using academic language What is the teachers role/strategies in helping the learners construct meaning? - Answer- Teachers can use the tools of ethnography and community participation to have meaning and to help learners gain meaning What is coconstruction? - Answer- look up What are the communitites of practice? - Answer- extend academic discourse into the home and outside the classroom( within community or out of class) ex: store, playground, ect. What is the teachers role/strategies in supporting enriched education in dual- language programs? - Answer- teachers should recognize that bilingual students have advantages in cognitive and lingustic abilities bc the brain is strengthened as it can develop enhanced abilities to focus, priortize and multitask, collaborative class work using both languages, material resources in 2 languages, writing in both languages-