TECNOLOGIA 2

ISSUES AND PROBLEMS IN SECOND LANGUAGE LEARNING

Demands on Content Area Teachers

Challenges of Integrating the Students’ Native Languages

Academic and Language Prerequisites for ELLs

The Need to Differentiate Instruction

Teachers face the challenge to teach content to students with limited English proficiency.

Discontinuation of funds for special classes or bilingual approaches.

Many ELL students are not literate in their first language.

They must be taught to read, so teachers must teach them to speak and read English at the same time.

Typical grade-level content materials are above the reading proficiency levels of ELL students.

Teachers must develop their students' academic language and background knowledge for them to participate in mainstream classes.

It is helpful for English language learners to read text designed for native English speakers who are younger than they are

Teachers need to deliver instruction across a wide range of proficiency levels.

ELL teachers cannot assume their classes have been divided according to proficiency level.

Technology can help the teacher differentiate instruction and can offer ways for students to work independently

on developing their skills.

Efforts to prepare students for mainstream classes in English require building background knowledge in the content area.

Use of students’ native languages serves to build students’ skills in their native languages, which facilitates skills in English.

Technology allow teachers to create vocabulary lists specific to their lessons.

These can help prepare students who have few other scaffolds be more successful in participating in grade-level and content classrooms