CTL7019 Supporting English Language Learners

CTL7019 Supporting English Language Learners

Class 3: Using Translanguaging & Plurilingual Strategies to Support ELLs

Dr. Shakina Rajendram Intersession 2020

Class 3 Agenda

Recap of Class 2 Plurilingualism & Translanguaging

What Theory & Research Say Give & Get Activity My Plurilingual Journey Assignment Incorporating Translanguaging

Strategies into your Lessons ELL Connect Group Work

Class 2 Recap

1. 3 theories of language acquisition ? Language is learned through imitation and habit formation (behaviourist

view) ? Language is learned through an innate cognitive process (innatist view) ? Language is learned through social interaction (interactionist view)

2. Thinking about effective strategies for your ELLs based on your own language learning experiences

3. Ideal conditions for language learning

1. Language is Learned through Imitation & Habit Formation

Behaviourist perspective (e.g., B.F. Skinner)

Children imitate the language they hear & receive positive reinforcement. Positive reinforcement encourages children to continue reproducing language patterns until they become automatic/conditioned

L2 learning learners may have difficulty recognizing & producing sounds of a new language because they have refined their production of sounds to match their first language environment

2. Language is Learned as an Innate Cognitive Process Innatist perspective (e.g., Noam Chomsky)

Children learn language because they have an innate predisposition for language learning & language acquisition device

Children seek patterns (hypothesis testing) & modify their patterns in response to feedback & further linguistic input

L2 learning "overgeneralization" (e.g., "I go, she go"); "interlanguage" (intermediate forms of language); "fossilization" (e.g., when an interlanguage pattern remains static)

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