English Language Learners #1

T.E.S.O.L.

A professional discipline working with linguistics diversity (a mix of different fields)

Different Fields in T.E.S.O.L.

Teaching English, linguistics, sociology, psychology, Anthology

Language Maintenance

You have to practice your English to improve your English

Immersion

Surrounded by the language (being thrown in the deep end, sink or swim)

S.E.S.

Social economic status

Ethnocentrism

You think your way of living is the best way of living

Linguistic tolerance

Tolerance of people who don’t speak English (Stereotype)

English language policy as emancipatory

Not free from English, English is mandatory (other languages are not welcome)

Second Language Learning

(SLL) Linguistic diverse

First Language Acquisition (L1)

What you say your first words in

Native Language

National (Language of Country)

Homework Language

What your parents speak

Heritage Language

What your grandparents speak

Second language acquisition (L2)

Any language learned after the first language

Social Aspect of learning language

Speaking and listening

Formal aspect of learning language

Reading and Writing

Culture

Values, beliefs, religion

Invocation

Indirected results

Multiculturalism

Multiple cultures can and should coexist, culturally ethical in the classroom, remove bias to be good at it

Communitive Competent

Can communicate competently

CALP

Cognitive Academic Language Proficiency

Formal discourse

Proper Language

Informal discourse

Not proper language

Semi-Formal

Both formal and informal language

BICS

Basic interpersonal communication skills

NES

Native English speaker (L1)

NNES

Non-Native English speaker (L2)

EFL

English as Foreign Language (East Asia)

ESL

English as a Second Language (Comes to USA to improve English, immersion)

Cultural Eradication

The deliberate and systematic destruction of a group’s culture, language and identity by a dominant group

Linguistic eradication

The deliberate and systematic destruction of a language

Identity eradication

The deliberate and systematic process of destroying or suppressing a person’s or group’s sense of self and their cultural, historical and psychological markers

EAL

English as another language (Various parts of Africa)

*True bilingual classroom, learning English as a class

*Not English language policy as emancipatory

CLD

Culturally and Linguistically diverse (Context and Content)

Domestic

Born here, Community is diverse (China town, etc)

Exotic

International Students

EL

English learner

• Only linguistic diverse, same culture

• Content only

Double speak

You say one thing but you mean something else

Context Clue

Clue on the situation

Ethnic Center

Promotes the growth of L1 over English as L2

International School (American language institute)

Pushing western thinking and language,

• K-12 Academic oriented school that promotes
  bilingual education of Western Society.

• Typically located in big urban centers or outside of U.S. territories.

English for academic purpose

College Prep and CALP oriented

Adult Basic English

Afraid of getting in trouble with the law (likely not a citizen)

• BICS oriented, post K-12 demographic,
  career related

• Communitive commpitive

K-12 ESL

In schools today

• Kindergarten to twelve grade ESL support for children.

• Focus
  is almost exclusively BICS for inclusion purposes.

Target Language

The language being learned at the moment (Immersion)

Levels of proficiency (ELD)

Knowledge and skills of a EL

LMS/ Language minority

Students language makes them a minority in the class

Connotation

The way the word is taken

Broken English

Mixing their L1 with English, habits from L1

What do you NOT call students with different languages

Minorities/Minority

ELD

Term used in the U.S. to refer to ESL services