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Bilingual Learners:
Students who are proficient
in two languages.
External assessment
Stakeholders
Diagnostic assessment
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On-the-run assessment
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age
Appropiatness of curriculum
School years:
deal with hostility,dominance
and friendship.
Interact with peers to lead and to be lead.
to hide anxiety
Emotional and Social Growth
In this stage students
need: love, security, and
recognition to function in
groups.
Students understand Learners begin to self- Students increase their
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the story.
• Friendly feedback to
avoid loss of motivation.
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Rate of development
Not every child develops the same way, and all
dimensions do not develop at the same time.
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Pedadogic Purposes Administrative Purposes
• Appropiate tasks
and instructions
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• respond appropriately to
directives.
interactions.
Extending language use ability
(more advanced levels)
• understand extended
teacher input and interaction
strategies
Sociocultural Perspective of
SLA
‘Learning how to mean’
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Sociocultural
Cultural codes/rules
The role of speaking and silence Interpersonal relationships
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The nature of the classroom determines how
well children develop their new identities in
the second language
Learning the discourses of the
classroom
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The discourse of the classroom can be said to be made up of the social interaction
amongst participants. Learning the specific discourses of curriculum content
areas such as science, social studies, physical education and mathematics.
Optimal conditions for
language learning
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Include, at least, the following four features: a focus on meaning, interesting and engaging input
and interacting, selected opportunities to focus on form,
and a safe and supportive learning environment.
Hard work
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Children do not simply absorb the language around them.
Children in a foreign language situation:
• ‘useL1’ in order
to double-check
words or
expressions not
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available in L2.
• ‘appeal for
assistance’.
• ‘build patterns’
Printes (1999) • The Silent period
Implications for assessment
Effective language
assessment builds up
children’s abilities to use
language in the full
meaning of the term.
• Age
• Cognitive development
• Social and emotional development
• Physical development
• Literacy development