The Cultural And Linguistic Students: The Cultural And Linguistic Students

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The cultural and linguistic student is a resource of knowledge and information many educators do not utilize. Understanding the student’s culture, beliefs, and experiences is important when structuring lessons, which assist in the success of the language learner. The classroom teacher accomplishes this through reflective action as teaching methods and strategies are revisited and evaluated to match the ELL student’s capabilities. The ELL student is not only intelligent, but he or she has many interesting things to teach us explained Berg (2014). Dr. Strickland asserted a child’s diverse language does not relate to competence (Laureate Education, Inc. 2014s). As diversity is the new norm, the educational setting must be prepared to be as well. …show more content…

He is a seven-year-old Hispanic first grader whose home language is Spanish. Student 1 comes from a low socioeconomic background with academic challenges in reading. He struggles to learn basic sight words and is weak in phonic and phonemic awareness. Student 1 receives after school tutoring and is at the RTI Tier 3 level, which gives him frequent intense instruction with the Reading Specialist during the school day. Another way to help the ELL student as noted by Vázquez-Montilla, Just, and Triscari (2014) is the availability of professional educator training to improve instruction for the growing diversity populations in the schools. Perhaps the practice of culturally responsive teaching would help Student 1 connect with literature through his experiences or information. This teaching method would involve using the language learner’s “funds of knowledge” as a springboard into language …show more content…

Unlike their peers, the ELL student faces the challenge of learning English language proficiency and academic content standards at the same time Colorín Colorado (2015). Also, challenging is the implicit and explicit content language ELL students must learn. CCSS challenges language learners to engage in complex text by decoding text in a language they are at the very early stages of acquiring asserted Kibler, Walqu and Bunch (2015). Yet, the standards also provide a way for language learners to improve oral language skills through Q & A sessions and sharing their ideas bringing forth their resource of knowledge and information even

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