What I know
ELLs might already be How to perfect classroom
fluent in more than one
language, and sentence
structures/grammar might
be completely different
when compared to
English
ELLs might find phonics
difficult, as their mother
tongue has no alphabet
You have to be aware
if students are just
memorizing words,
rather than decoding
and reading them
ELLs all have unique
strengths they can bring
to learning
The amount of time for
an ELL to become fluent
in English differs for all,
but all students benefit
from support and
encouragement
ELLs should be given
natural/realistic ways to
practise using English
Do not focus on all
writing errors; focus on
the most important, like
sentence structure, until
the student is familiar
What I want to explore further What Ive learned
It takes two years to
dynamics so that all become fluent in spoken
students are willing to English, but it takes at
help each other in their least five years for
learning academic English
How to make learning Adults learn foreign
relatable for students who languages very
are not used to traditional differently, as their
classroom settings environment is
How to organize time so completely different
that ELLs with very basic compared to a childs, so
English skills are getting it will take longer to
effective instruction, acquire a new language
while the rest of the class Other factors are
is not being held back involved, such as
How to help shy ELL maturation of the
students speak out more brain
It takes from one to two
years to learn a new
language
Adults learn foreign
languages in much the
same way as children
learn their native
language
the process of learning
English may cause some
ELLs to feel that their
identity is being
threatened