ESOL LEARNERS - 7 PRINCPLES
Know your Learners
Know the Families
Know the Culture, the language, strengths, aspirations and interests
Create opportunities for students to hare their culture and lanuage
Plan for learning experiences to teach vocab and model language use in class
Use context embedded tasks
Identify the Specific learning outcomes
Teach the language needed in class
Use songs and rhymes
Use audio resources, listening posts
Use picture matching and barrier games
Check for unerstanding
Make explicit the same learning outcomes for all
Use communicative tasks to teach and practice language needed for friendhsips
Teach positional language
Teach prepositions and pronouns
Plan oral learning experiences
Plan outings and visits
Plan for authentic language use
Introduce specific vocabulary
Practice with a partner
Use wall charts
Use think, pair, share
Identify and adress unclear pronouns
Establish home/school partnership
Send resources home
Balance receptive and expressive language
Talk before, during and after reading
encourage the family to join the library
Encourage families to learn with their children
Choose differentiated tasks
Make connections to prior knowledge
Monitor and self evaluations
Use checklists
use peer editing
encourage bilingual skills in planning, writing and mind mapping
Reference:
Wendy Holley (Director). (2021, March 11). ESOL Resources | Kirsty MacDiarmid | MoE.