Teaching ESL Students in the Mainstream Classroom (excerpt)

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It is vital for teachers to consider the language used in their subject area from an ESL learner's point of view. This informative programme helps teachers accommodate ESL learners with real-life classroom examples and practical strategies. It explores how teachers can consider the language demands of their lessons and use non-verbal cues to enhance language comprehension. It then explain how language modeling builds learner confidence and how to differentiate between language and content when correcting. Finally it demonstrates the "Think- Pair-Share" strategy for concept checking and discusses the importance of integrating cognitive taxonomies and learning styles to build thinking skills.

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Education

Tags:

• Student
• Education
• Classroom
• Lesson
• ESL
• english
• second
• language
• modeling
• integrating
• cognitive
• taxonomies