Process Groundwork—Outline

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Running head: K-12 CASE STUDY 1

K-12 CASE STUDY 4

Process Groundwork—Brainstorming K-12

Ronda Kemp

The University of Arizona Global Campus

ELL 240 Linguistically & Culturally Diverse Learners

Jerrica Mesquita

7/12/2022

· Restated assignment guidelines for Week 5.

 According to the week 5 guidelines, understanding of the language proficiency levels of Maria and Abed, and brainstorm the potential topics that the teacher can focus on to help them succeed academically. The strategies for teaching these topics and effectively helping the learners acquire language proficiency will be stated. The action plan for achieving the set objectives in the English class learning sessions will be designed and ways to implement it suggested. Three possible thesis statements that will guide the designing of action plan and strategies that will help the learners in the case study develop higher proficiency in English will be stated.

· Brainstormed potential topics.

1. Acquisition Levels -

2. Four Domains of Language (Instructor Guidance)

3. Making Meaning in Language

4. Comprehensible Input

5. Cultural knowledge

· Thesis statement

1. An analysis of Maria and Abed reveals that they have challenges expressing themselves in written and verbally but setting clear objectives and teaching simple sentence construction will help Mrs. Serpe guide them to successfully write and speak English fluently and openly.

2. An analysis of Maria and Abed reveals that they have challenges acquiring high English proficiency but setting clear objectives and teaching English word pronunciation and writing will help Mrs. Serpe guide them to successfully write and pronounce English words well.

3. An analysis of Maria and Abed reveals that they have challenges reading short stories and practical storytelling but setting clear objectives and teaching them simple guidelines to read and understand comprehensions, and making a simple story tell will help Mrs. Serpe guide them to successfully read and respond to comprehension questions correctly, and express themselves freely (Regalla, 2012).

References

Regalla, M. (2012). Language objectives: More than just vocabulary. TESOL Journal, 3(2), 210-230.