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Assessment

Being able to assess ELLs with reliability and validity presents unique challenges. For this discussion, you will read about and disseminate the purpose of and complications with assessing ELLs. Respond to either the K-12 or adult learning questions, but not both.

To structure your writing,

· Your audience will be you. This post will require reflection on our content.

· Your role is that of someone who understands the information from a research perspective.

· The format options include: 1) PPT with or without screencast or voiceover, 2) Video submission through Week 3 Discussions, or 3) a two to three paragraph written piece.

· The purpose is to explain the purposes of assessment and challenges of assessing ELLs.

Children or Students in a K-12 Learning Context

Adult Learning Context

Read from your primary text:

· Chapter 4: Assessment and Program Options

· Chapter 9: Learners with Special Needs

Watch colorincolorado’s 2015 video Assessment for ELLs (Links to an external site.)

Read from your primary text:

· Chapter 9: Learners with Special Needs, 9.1-9.3

· Lieshoff, Aguilar, McShane, Burt, Peyton, Terrill, and Van Duzer’s 2008 article Practitioner Toolkit: Working With Adult English Language Learners (Links to an external site.) pages IV-25-IV-32

Watch International TEFOL Academy’s 2011 video How to Assess Listening in Your ESL Classroom (Links to an external site.)

Address the following items in your original post.

· Explain the purposes of assessment for ELLs.

· Summarize some of the challenges with assessing ELLs.

· Clarify what information is new to you and how your thinking might have changed based on this information.

· Generate one or two questions you still have about assessing ELLs.

Address the following items in your original post.

· Explain the purposes of assessment for ELLs.

· Summarize some of the challenges with assessing ELLs.

· Clarify what information is new to you and how your thinking might have changed based on this information.

· Generate one or two questions you still have about assessing ELLs.

Submitting Discussion Post: Indicate if you are answering questions from the K-12 or adult perspective by using the following format for your file upload: LastNameDiscussionTitleLevel (e.g., RobinsonAssessmentAdult or RobinsonAssessmentK12).

Writing and Content in the ESL Classroom [WLOs: 1, 2] [CLOs: 1, 2, 3, 4]

Writing can be very challenging for ELLs. By being aware of how to scaffold instruction, we can help them acquire this domain to make themselves understood while writing. Respond to either the K-12 or adult learning questions, but not both.

To structure your writing,

· Your audience will be a group of colleagues who are unfamiliar with these ideas or who need clarification and strategies to help with the presented problem.

· Your role will be a well-informed teacher with knowledge of teaching ELLs.

· The format is a discussion post.

· The purpose is to explain the information in a way to help others.

Children or Students in a K-12 Learning Context

Adult Learning Context

Read from your primary text:

· Chapter 7: Content-Area Teaching

Read:

Robertson’s article Improving Writing Skills: ELLs and the Joy of Writing (Links to an external site.) (n.d.)

Watch:

Acacia University (2017). Writing strategies for ESL students (Links to an external site.) [Video file].

Writing a paragraph with high school ELLs (Links to an external site.)

Read:

· Mahmoud and Oraby’s 2015 article Let Them Toil to Learn: Implicit Feedback, Self-Correction and Performance in EFL Writing (Links to an external site.)

Watch:

Acacia University (2017). Writing strategies for ESL students . (Links to an external site.) Retrieved from

International TEFL Academy’s 2011 video Teaching Writing Skills in the ESL Classroom (Links to an external site.)

Address the following items in your original post.

1. Describe some challenges with teaching writing and content in an ESL classroom.

2. Explain how teachers help students overcome those challenges.

3. Determine how teachers can help students with the vocabulary needed to write.

4. Defend how BICS and CALP language proficiencies can impact a student’s writing.

Address the following items in your original post.

1. Describe some challenges with teaching writing in an ESL classroom.

2. Explain how teachers help students overcome those challenges.

3. Determine how teachers can help students with the vocabulary needed to write.

4. Defend how BICS and CALP language proficiencies can impact a student’s writing.

Interview [WLOs: 1, 2, 4,] [CLOs: 1, 2, 3, 4]

The paper for this week requires students to watch an interview with a teacher who has experience working with English language learners (ELLs). For this assignment, watch the videos below and read the resources. Then, follow the instructions below. Respond to either the K-12 or adult learning questions, but not both.

To structure your writing,

· Your audience will be a group of colleagues who are unfamiliar with these ideas or who need clarification and strategies to help with the presented problem.

· Your role will be a well-informed teacher with knowledge of teaching ELLs.

· The format is a discussion post.

· The purpose is to explain the information in a way to help others.

Children or Students in a K-12 Learning Context

Adult Learning Context

Read from your primary text:

· Chapter 8: Differentiating for Diversity

· Chapter 10: Putting It All Together

Watch Allen’s 2014 video Interview With ELL Teacher (Links to an external site.)

Read from your primary text:

· Chapter 8: Differentiating for Diversity

· Chapter 10: Putting It All Together

Watch ALISwebsite’s 2012 video Occupational Video—English as a Second Language Teacher: Adults (Links to an external site.) and SMACE videos’ 2015 video San Mateo Adult School (Links to an external site.)

Address the following items in your original post.

· Identify how this teacher promotes comprehensible input.

· Explain some of the complications of teaching ELLs that are presented by this teacher.

o What ideas would you have for a teacher to overcome those challenges, based on what we have been learning?

· Infer some cultural challenges that teachers should be aware of.

o How can this be impacted by Culture Shock?

· Distinguish the strategies this teacher recommends.

· After listening to the teacher, outline strategies you would recommend.

· Infer and describe how this teacher utilizes BICS, CALP, comprehensible input, silent period, language proficiency, total physical response, assessment, affective filter, scaffolding/differentiation.

Address the following items in your original post.

· Explain some of the motivations that send adults to school to learn English.

· Examine the complications faced by these students without knowing and learning English.

· Summarize some unique challenges faced by adults who want to or need to learn English.

· Infer the cultural challenges that teachers should be aware of. How can this be impacted by Culture Shock.

· Infer and describe some of the ways the adult English teachers utilize BICS, CALP, comprehensible input, silent period, language proficiency, total physical response, assessment, affective filter, scaffolding/differentiation to assist their students while they are learning English.

Vocabulary Word Map [WLOs: 3, 4] [CLOs: 3, 4]

As you have learned, teaching vocabulary is one of the most important things we can do. In this exercise, you are going to create a virtual vocabulary mind map and then paste your mind map into the discussion. Here is a video to show you how to create the mind map on bubbl.us (Links to an external site.).

Word Bank

Wait Time English as a Second Language

BICS Realia

CALP Comprehensible Input

Language Objectives Four Domains of Language

Language Proficiency Levels Affective Filter Hypothesis

Communicative Language Teaching Assessment

Vocabulary Development Receptive Skills

Productive Skills

· Use the site us (Links to an external site.) to create a map that includes 10 vocabulary words from the list below. Through the map, demonstrate how the words are connected.

· Create a vocabulary map that shows logical connections between the words based on the concepts learned in this course.

· For a quick tutorial of bubbl.us, watch Recording #52 (Links to an external site.)

To structure your writing,

· Your audience will be a group of colleagues who are unfamiliar with these ideas or who need clarification and strategies to help with the presented problem.

· Your role will be a well-informed teacher with knowledge of teaching ELLs.

· The format is a discussion post.

· The purpose is to explain the information in a way to help others.

Text

Piper, T. (2015). Language, learning, and culture: English language learning in today’s schools . Retrieved from https://content.ashford.edu/

· This text is a Constellation™ course digital material (CDM) title.

Articles

Deng, F., & Zou, Q. (2016). A study on whether adults’ second language acquisition is easy or not: From the perspective of children’s native language acquisition. (Links to an external site.) Theory and Practice in Language Studies, 6(4), 776-780. doi:10.17507/tpls.0604.15

Himmel, J. (n.d.). Language objectives: The key to effective content area instruction for English learners. (Links to an external site.)Retrieved from http://www.colorincolorado.org/article/language-objectives-key-effective-content-area-instruction-english-learners

Lieshoff, S. C., Aguilar, N., McShane, S., Burt, M., Peyton, J. K., Terrill, L., & Van Duzer, C. (2008, March). Practitioner toolkit: Working with adult English language learners. (Links to an external site.)Retrieved from http://www.cal.org/caela/tools/program_development/CombinedFiles1.pdf

Mahmoud, S. S., & Oraby, K. K. (2015). Let them toil to learn: Implicit feedback, self-correction and performance in EFL writing. (Links to an external site.) Theory and Practice in Language Studies, 5(8), 1672-1681. doi:10.17507/tpls.0508.18

Robertson, K. (n.d.). Improving writing skills: ELLs and the joy of writing. (Links to an external site.) Retrieved from http://www.colorincolorado.org/article/improving-writing-skills-ells-and-joy-writing

Rymniak, M. (2011). Adult ESL classroom strategies and lesson ideas. In A toolkit for ESL practitioners: Supporting skilled immigrants. (Links to an external site.) Retrieved from http://www.globaltalentbridge.org/toolkit/pdf/CH3_ESLStrategies.pdf

TESOL (n.d.). Pre-K-12 English Language Proficiency Standards Framework (Links to an external site.). Retrieved from https://www.tesol.org/docs/books/bk_prek-12elpstandards_framework_318.pdf?sfvrsn=2

Multimedia

Acacia University (2017). Writing strategies for ESL students (Links to an external site.) [Video file]. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gd3ezbUBbLo

ALISwebsite. (2012, March 8). Occupational video—English as a second language teacher: Adults (Links to an external site.) [Video file]. Retrieved from https://youtu.be/eofvMAB8Dqg

Allen, T. [Taylor Allen]. (2014, February 4). Interview with ELL teacher (Links to an external site.) [Video file]. Retrieved from https://youtu.be/OBL5orPLxyk

Ashford University. (2018). ELL240 vocabulary quiz. [Media file]. Retrieved from https://ashford.instructure.com

colorincolorado. (2015, June 5). Assessment for ELLs (Links to an external site.) [Video file]. Retrieved from https://youtu.be/q6fG4FmibEQ

colorincolorado (2012, February 7). Writing a paragraph with high school ELLs (Links to an external site.) [Video file]. Retrieved from https://youtu.be/wbZ2k5j8MFk

Films Media Group (Producer). (2004). Differentiated instruction and the English language learner [Video file]. Differentiated instruction and the English Language. https://digital.films.com/PortalPlaylists.aspx?wID=100753&xtid=60329

International TEFL Academy. (2011, September 22). How to assess listening in your ESL classroom (Links to an external site.) [Video file]. Retrieved from https://youtu.be/A-Ag69w1Hjg

International TEFL Academy (2011, July 28). Teaching writing skills in the ESL classroom (Links to an external site.) [Video file]. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbZUKAamXDU

International TEFL Academy. (2011, September 22). Teaching reading in an ESL classroom (Links to an external site.) [Video file]. Retrieved from https://youtu.be/8wfH99DeKfY

PCG. (2012, October 12). Teaching reading and comprehension to English learners, grades K-5 (Links to an external site.) . [Video file]. Retrieved from https://youtu.be/s4A85oOjZW0

Pinker, S. (2005, July). What our language habits reveal (Links to an external site.) [Video file]. Retrieved from https://www.ted.com/talks/steven_pinker_on_language_and_thought

SMACE videos. (2015, June 9). San Mateo Adult School (Links to an external site.) [Video file]. Retrieved from https://youtu.be/n1YoUwGaOGg

Westergaard, C. [Chris Westergaard]. (2015, March 14). ESL beginner lesson demo (Chris Westergaard) (Links to an external site.) [Video file]. Retrieved from https://youtu.be/2_38JfVFQoU