Oct. 1, 2012 - Learning Objectives

Class Activity - Matching content objectives and language objectives

Language on left, and Content on the right

Components of English Language Development for ELL's (Linguistics)

1. Levels of Language Knowledge
2. Oral Language
3. Phonology
4. Orthography
5. Morphology
6. Grammar and Syntax
7. Vocabulary and Semantics

Levels of Language Knowledge

• Receptive Skills (listening)
• point to shapes
• Expressive (speaking)
• Name shapes
• Oral 
• written

Components of Oral Language

• content
• any component of language that carries meaning such as vocabulary or discourse
• Use
• refers to pragmatic language functions or how language is used as a social tool
• form
• component of language that follows a rule system such as syntax and grammar or sequence of sounds within a language

The use of the language is the hardest for this students

Content is difficult for this student

Grammar and Syntax is difficult for this student.

Phonology  - a study of the sound patterns of a language

• phonemes
• phonological awareness
• phonics

English Demons for ELLs

• Short vowels
• "sh" sound in shoes, mission, nation, ocean, chef, special and sugar
• One sound, but 6 different spellings

Language Distance

• some languages are easier to learn than others, depending on the complexity of their symbol system and their degree of transferability and or transparency

Orthographies - the symbols and the rules for writing them (spelling)

• transparent - allow a few or just one association between symbols and sounds
• opague - allows many ways - including combinations of symbols - of associating symbols and sounds.

Morphology

• study of word origin, formation and structure
• how words are put together from their smaller parts and the rules of governing the process
• morpheme is the smallest unit of meaning
• Cats contains 2 morphemes
• cat and the plural s