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Ms. Hall's Techniques for Teaching Language Acquisition
Introduce
The key to beginning acquisition is clear and precise instruction.
Starting a Lesson
Ex. Ms. Hall will begin by focusing her students or mentee's attention to a particular idea like production of sound or differences of sounds in language.
Delivering instruction relies on knowing the areas students excel and struggle in to highlight areas of that lesson.
Techniques Before Instruction
There are a few ways in which to address areas of improvement before instruction:
Conferences with the student
Looking at past work
Researching native language
Discuss
Once informed on the areas of improvement, discussion will provide the basis of the new information being given.
Lessons should focus on forming foundations that will build over time.
Ex: Subjects like placement of the tongue or air passage need to be understood before the different phonemes of 'p'.
Discussion will lead into addressing areas of improvement
Ms. Hall will discuss the topic and provide an example like /j/ phoneme in "dg" is difficult for Spanish speaker to pronounce, as a way to have the students understand the language error.
Using minimal pairs students can see the words they may think they are pronouncing with the words the listener receives.
During the lesson it is good to have students hear the difference in the sound so that they can be able to reproduce it later.
Model
After students have had time to comprehend the basis of the lessons information, the next step of acquisition is for students to see what the end product of the lesson will look like.
IMPORTANT: Teachers should prepare precise speaking and instruction so that ELs will replicate and understand the desired goal. Confusion at this step may lead to further difficulties down the line.
Modeling Activites
Repeat After Me
Ms. Hall will work with the individual English speakers and use hearing exercises to have the students replicate the English pronunciations.
Practice
ELs are encouraged to continue to work with their resources and activities to hone their English language learning.
Student Oral Speech Activities
Cultural show and tell: have a student each day provide a short three to five minute presentation on a special piece of their culture and provide questions to engage their talking.
Role Play: act out going to shopping, being at the park, or making dinner to reinforce common words and phrases they can use in their every day activites
Ms. Hall will use practices like flash cards, anchor charts, and recordings for students to reference in and out of the classroom.