Speech Emergent
Define: Speech becomes more frequent, words and sentences are longer, but the individual still relies heavily on context clues and familiar topics. Vocabulary continues to increase and errors begin to decrease, especially in common or repeated interactions.
Strategies:
- Introduce more academic language and skills by using the same techniques listed above, but beginning to use more academic vocabulary.
- Introduce new academic vocabulary and model how to use it in a sentence.
- Provide visuals and make connections with student's background knowledge as much as possible.
- Ask questions that require a short answer and are fairly literal.
- Introduce charts and graphs by using easily understood information such as a class survey of food preferences.
- Have students re-tell stories or experiences and have another student write them down. The EL student an bring these narratives home to read and reinforce learning.
- In writing activities, provide the student with a fill-in-the blank version of the assignment with the necessary vocabulary listed on the page.
- Provide minimal error correction. Focus only on correction that directly interferes with meaning. Reinforce learning by modeling the correct usage.
Information taken from: http://www.colorincolorado.org/article/language-acquisition-overview