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FOCUS: What does it take to acquire a language? What is the process for…

- - - - I teach students who have a moderate cognitive disability. Nine of my students are bilingual. There disability did not prevent them from learning a L1 and L2. (BOG)
      - I have a student who moved here from Mexico at the beginning of the school year. This student is still in the pre-production stage. It seems as if my student is going through a silent period where he is listening to English but he is not taking too many risks and opportunities to try speaking it in the classroom setting. I should not just assume that the child is not learning. (Haynes,2005) (VS)
      - in my experience, bilinguals acquiring L2 that have support from home are proficient in reading, writing, speaking L2 [AM]
      - I have bilinguals that have spanish speaking parents at home that struggle with L2 (English) more than students with parents who are also bilinguals [AM)
        
        This leads me to believe that environment and home life have a significant impact on ELLS acquiring the L2 [AM]
        
        Support for families through the school and community can have an impact as well. (SS)
- - - - Recent research has found that “full-immersion” is the least effective form of English language instruction for ELLs in terms of long term achievement when compared to other bilingual and immersion language programs (Kyong Kim, Hutchison, & Winsler, 2013) (VS)
      - Teaching English Learners in an English Only environment has been a very controversial topic in the US. (VS)
    - - We presenting a second language the vocabulary should slightly higher. Presenting students with lower level vocabulary is considered simplified input. (Freeman, Freeman 2011) (MS)
- - - - Chomsky's claims that 1st language is innate. 1. No formal instruction. 2. Limited evidence. 3. Limited feedback (Freeman, Freeman, 2011) (MS)