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Listening & Speaking
Challenges for ELLs to construct meaning through Oral English (Wright, 157)
English speakers do not pronounce individual words separately and distinctly with space between them like written words.
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Speaking is much more complicated than simply selecting the correct vocabulary words and stringing them together with proper syntax to make sentences.
Different types of speech activities are structured by unwritten cultural norms that are known by proficient English speakers but may be elusive to ELLs
*Oral language is important and most often used mode of communication, but we tend to spend the least amount of classroom instruction time helping ELLs develop it.
Center for Research on Education, Diversity, and Excellence Report
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English oral language proficiency tests fail to capture the full oral language proficiency of bilingual students
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