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Sixth International Conference on Immersion and Dual Language Education: Connecting Research and Practice Across Contexts

du 20 au 22 October 2016

Hyatt Regency Hotel, Minneapolis, MN, USA

Building & Dismantling Scaffolds to Improve L2 Output in Preschool & Elementary Immersion Programs

samedi 22 octobre 2016 à 15:00–16:00 CDT
Greenway Ballroom G
Session Type

Paper/Best Practice Session (1 hour)

Immersion/Partner Language(s)

English (L2) and Portuguese (L1)

Context/program model

One-Way Second/Foreign Language Immersion

Level
Pre-K
Elementary (K-5)
Program Summary

We will explore the collaboration in two immersion classrooms (Pre-K and Grade 3) to examine how noticing and awareness were used to improve output. We will take a close look at what scaffolds were constructed and how they were removed to improve students’ accuracy and fluency.

Abstract/Description for Paper, Discussion, and Laptop Poster presentations

We will outline some of the research we put into practice in a school-wide effort to improve L2 output.  We will let participants explore a preschool classroom as well as grade 3 classroom where our intention was to work closely with teachers to help them to implement effective noticing and awareness.  We will highlight the following stages of the work in our school:

  1. What is noticing and awareness?  In exploring this we will show how we addressed comprehensible input with our teachers but how this stops short of what our students need.
  2. Setting clear language goals in every lesson.  Without this there would be no way to properly hold students accountable to output.  Integrating language and content.
  3. What scaffolding strategies are needed to make a rigorous curriculum accessible to all learners through the immersion language?
  4. Strategies for effective corrective feedback
  5. What is a reformulation and how to get teachers to do this effectively in the classroom? 

Finally we will let the participants see the importance of teacher collaboration and how they worked together to set goals, strategies and what they did to look for learning.  

Lead Presenter/organizer

Lyle French, Avenues - The World School
Role/Title

Director of Teaching & Learning

State (in US) or Country

BR

Co-Presenters

Marcelle Doria, Escola Beit Yaacov
Role/Title

Preschool Coordinator

State (in US) or Country

BR

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