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- Fri Mar 14, 2014 10:03 pm
- Forum: Computer Assisted Language Learning
- Topic: The Use Social Media as a Teaching Tool
- Replies: 7
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- Fri Mar 14, 2014 9:59 pm
- Forum: Assessment
- Topic: L1
- Replies: 1
- Views: 5083
I totally get what you're saying. While I discourage teachers from using translations (partially because online translations are unreliable, but also because students need to lose the crutches to absorb English more readily), I always encourage separate reading and exploration in the L1. I ask them ...
- Fri Mar 14, 2014 9:44 pm
- Forum: Secondary School Education
- Topic: Teaching ESL to students who speak English already
- Replies: 2
- Views: 6615
I have a similar situation with a student. I'm not sure what the classification criteria is in PA, but I know that in NY, despite fairly obvious protocols, students get misclassified as ESL. Worse yet, some students remain ELLs well into their later years. I have a student who is a 9 year ELL (in 9t...
- Fri Mar 14, 2014 9:33 pm
- Forum: Secondary School Education
- Topic: ESL and Common Core Math
- Replies: 0
- Views: 4584
ESL and Common Core Math
Greetings, teachers. I want to know what other ESL teachers think about the Common Core and Math, and if they have any strategies for secondary students who have to take exams at the end of the year. I am in New York, and my students have to take the Algebra regents in June. I have four ELLs I am co...