5 Journal Reflection #2: Sheltered Instruction Journal Reflection #2 Sheltered Instruction Tami McLean Morningside College Introduction The following reflection is about the article Using Sheltered Instruction to Support English Learners by Amy Markos and Jennifer Himmel. This reflection will give a summary of the article and reflect how the information can be used in the classroom. Summary
Vocabulary builder has been a website I visit every day. Acquiring five new words a day was proving difficult – one or two days after learning a new word I was forgetting its definition. This lead to me revising my plan; instead of learning five new words,
Coming across words that may be unfamiliar will help grown a student’s vocabulary, however this cannot be the only source of vocabulary, relying on text is not guaranteed to grow a student’s vocabulary. It is essential to stay involved and active to ensure the growth of a student’s vocabulary is consistent with grade level expectations. “Students must be taught vocabulary directly at all levels, but particularly general academic and domain-specific vocabulary needed in the upper grades. Core standards often refer to three tiers of vocabulary. After basic tier 1 words, tier 2 corresponds roughly to general academic vocabulary and tier 3 is akin to domain-specific academic vocabulary” (page 243-244).
After learning new vocabulary, students can make sense of new terms and use those terms in their writing or in further explanation of a topic.
ENG 101 DB Vocabulary Write a reflection on how plan on improving your vocabulary in this class or how you have done so in the past. Even though I am a mature learner, I take pride in working to improving myself. Since, I have been back in school I have made it a point to try and expand my vocabulary and improve my spelling. One tool that I use is the the thesaurus online.
According to Rong and Pressle’s, “…oral communication skills in English as a second language require two or three years… Four to twelve years of second-language development are needed for the most advantaged students to reach deep academic proficiency and compete successfully with native speakers.” (87). It is essential for tutors to understand the amount of work and time required for students who are not native speakers. A good strategy in helping students with their academic english proficiency is to help them build their vocabulary.
Seventh grade was fantastic, but I would like to change a few things for next year. Next year in eighth grade, I need to increase my vocabulary, participate more in class, and stop procrastinating. I need to increase my vocabulary. I can read more books to learn new words. Whenever I don’t know a word, I can ask others for the definition or look in a dictionary and remember the definition for the next time I encounter the word.
CHAPTER FOUR: DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSION 5.1 Discussion and Conclusions This study explored the components of Lesson Study, which impacts, on the respondent’s teaching and student learning. This chapter discusses the results and offers an analysis of how the study results emphasis on the initial research questions as well as connect to literature review of the study. The discussion is arranged on the basis of research question. Summary of Findings Participants interview, observations and from many literature this study explore that TSN through Lesson Study is an innovative teaching approach comes from Japan.
Vocabulary Instruction is primarily achieved through oral language supplemented with word banks, pictures and repetition. The technique involves selecting several target vocabulary words to teach and includes activities to 1) introduce words before reding the story
Learners of English have to deal with unfamiliar vocabulary during their language acquisition. Traditionally, vocabulary has not been a particular subject for students to learn, but has been taught within lessons of speaking, lstening, reading, and writing. Vocabulary knowledge involves more than knowing word definitions and knowing how to find the meanings of unknown words and phrases, interpret literal vs. non-literal language and understand shades of word meaning. It also creates better reading comprehension and the ability to engage, produce and talk about texts. Students who know more words and can also use them in the right context have a significant advantage in school and can continue using that skill to their advantage in college and career.
The educational system offers a multitude of subjects and topics that may or may not benefit a student later in life. However, to be specific, a topic that can have a strong benefit, but has also seemed to decline in the level of importance is rhetoric. Rhetoric acts as the backbone to a well formulated persuasive argument, which emphasizes rhetorics true value. Rhetoric should be highly valued by being taught more in today’s high schools because rhetoric is an ancient tool and because rhetoric is everywhere, there is no way to escape the concept. One of the most unique qualities in which rhetoric has become familiar with is that rhetoric has been around and has been constantly used for hundreds of years.
Amy MacRae once said "Literacy opens doors – It allows us to express our thoughts and to make sense of the world around us. Teaching children to be literate gives them a gift they’ll have for the rest of their lives!”. I agree with her because I believe that once people have a good understanding of reading people will never be alone. By never being alone I mean that people will always have the knowledge that people once read before. Literacy goes beyond just reading and writing; literacy is freedom.
INTRODUCTION As social being, human need to interact each other. Language is the principal means of human being to communicate with each other. It is used to express our reaction to certain situations, and to reveal our thoughts, ideas, emotions and feelings. Language also plays important roles to the development of human and technological civilization. Lyons (1981:3) writes, “A language is a system of arbitrary vocal symbol by means of which social group cooperates”.
The importance of good lesson planning and the benefits they have for the teacher. When considering the importance and even the significant of effective lesson planning, quite often we immediately considering the benefits that this can have on the student. Effective lesson planning certainly does benefit the student, discussed later in this essay.
Schools are the second place after home where students’ behavior and future educational success are shaped. At schools there are many elements or factors that can influence the teaching and learning process that may take place. Rasyid (2012) stated that there are four perennial truths that make the teaching and learning process possible to take place in the classroom. If one of these is not available, there will be no teaching and learning process, though the learning process itself may still take place, they are: (1) Teacher, (2) Students, (3) Material and (4) Context of time and place. All of them are related to one another.