Effective Teaching Strategies for English Language Learners

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Effective Teaching Strategies for English
Language Learners

• Three Different Perspectives
• by
• Jennifer Wheeler

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Teachers Perspectives

• Gestures and visual cues
• Repetition and opportunities for practicing
  skills and using new language often
• Use of objects, real props, and hands-on
  materials
• Multi-sensory approaches

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Students Perspectives

• Most Important
• Instructional Strategies
• Direct teaching and learning of vocabulary
  through listening, seeing, reading, and writing
  in short time segments
• Specific informal assessments based on curriculum
  (Curriculum-Based Probe)
• Fluency building (high frequency words)
• Tactile vocabulary development steps
• Combining kinesthetic and phonemic awareness

• Least Important
• Instructional Strategies
• Using a book on tape as support
• Acting out a story
• Oral sharing and discussion on a topic related to
  the reading
• Predicting what is going to happen in the story
  based on the title, headline, illustration, or
  initial sentence or paragraph
• Visualization of a story or drawing a scene of a
  story

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International Perspectives

• Demonstration
• Choral Drill
• Look and Say
• Pictorial and Verbal Illustration
• Association
• Questioning
• Narration or Storytelling
• Read and Say

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Bibliography

• Facella, M.A., Rampino, K.M., Shea, E.K.
  (2005). Effective Teaching Strategies for
  English Language Learners. Bilingual Research
  Journal, 29 (1), 209-221.
• Shyyan, V., Thurlow, M., Liu, K. (2005).
  Student Perceptions of Instructional Strategies
  Voices of English Language Learners with
  Disabilities (ELLs with Disabilities Report 11).
  Minneapolis, MN University of Minnesota,
  National Center on Educational Outcomes.
• Piller, B., Skillings, M. J. (2005, December).
  English Language Teaching Strategies Used by
  Primary Teachers in One New Delhi, India School
  Electronic version. TESL-EJ, 9 (3), 1-23.
  Retrieved April 13, 2009, from http//tesl-ej.org/
  ej35/cf.pdf