First, let me provide you with the links to SNL and Teaching Channel video clips. The clips offer contrasting views of what should occur in a classroom.
Tonight, we will pick up with second language acquisition theories. This is what we would have done last Wednesday, but we ran out of time.
I will provide an overview of the main theories which have led to many of the present day methodologies. Discussion as to their effectiveness in the classroom will be addressed throughout.
I will also provide you with 4 videos on the major theories. You will watch them in groups of 4 and then reflect on how they might surface in your classroom. We will then move on to your creating your theorist chart in groups of 4.
Video clips (to be viewed in class):
Zone of proximal development (1 minute 10 seconds)
Vygotsky's Got It!
(2 minutes 31 seconds---more info on ZPD)
Krashen (15 minutes 25 seconds)
Noam Chomsky universal grammar
(13 minutes 52 seconds)
In this class, students in teams of 4 will complete the CHART OF THEORISTS.
Clip for tonight: IMMERSION. In your groups of 4, describe school from the perspective of this ELL. Discuss the administration's attitude about students such as this one. If you were the teacher, what would you have done with this student and WHY? What academic supports should be made available for him in the classroom? Explain.
8/28, we move on to METHODOLOGIES based on some of those theories.
See you tomorrow evening and be sure to have your journal article reviews with you:)
Denise
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