ESL & SEI PRE-WORKSHOP

ESL & SEI TOP 100 TERMS

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Key ESL Terms

 

• ESL

• ELL

• SLA

• SEI

• sheltered instruction

• second language acquisition

• Zone of Proximal Development

• oral language development

• 5 Stages of SLA

• pre-production

• early production

• speech emergence

• intermediate fluency

• advanced fluency 

• receptive language

• expressive language

• aural and oral language

• language interference/transfer

• silent period

• code-switching

• fossilization

• conversational repair

• oracy

• communicative language proficiency

• Lingistic vs Communicative Competence

• What is WIDA?

• WIDA ELD Standards

• WIDA Levels 

• WIDA Preformance Definitions 

 

ESL & SEI Theories & Best Practices

 

• first language instruction

• Noam Chomsky & Language Aquisition

• Innate language  & Universal Grammar

• Krashen's Theories 1

• Krashen & Theories 2

• Acquisition hypothesis

• Comprehensible input hypothesis

• Affective filter hypothesis

• Natural Order hypothesis 

• James Cummin's & CUP

• What is BICS vs CALP?

• What is CALLA?

• CALLA Methods

• extrinsic motivation

• intrinsic motivation

• teacher centered learning

• student centered learning

• bottom-up learning

• top down learning

• functional english

• scaffolding instruction

• differentiating content-area instruction

• cooperative group structures

• visual supports 

• manipulatives supports

• sensory & interactive activities

• word walls & academic vocabulary

• authentic communication situations

• family engagement

• stages of acculturation

• culture shock

• ELL & SEI Best Practices 1

• Criterion-Referenced vs. Norm-Referenced Tests

 

Linguistics

• Phonology

• Morphology

• Syntax

• Semantics 

• Pragmatics 

• Phonetics

• IPA

• schawa sound

• neutral vowel sounds

• phonemes & allaphones

• minimal pairs

• tonal language

• voiced & unvoiced sounds

 

Morphology

• morphemes

• grammatical morphemes

• allomorphs

• structural analysis

• cognates

• morphological forms

• inflectional vs derivational suffixes

• latinate words

 

Syntax

• grammatical function of words

• syntax tree

• noun phrase

• verb phrase

• adverbial clause

• relative clause

 

Semantics

 

• context clues

• semantic cue

• connotations & denotations

 

Pragmatics

 

• pragmatics

• pragmatic competence

• discourse competence

• non-verbal communication

• non-verbal cues

• paralinguistics

• paralanguage

• Intonation

• Tone

• Facial expressions

 

Sociolinguistics  

 

• sociolinguistic competence

• social-economic influences

• sociocultural influences

• dialect diversity

• idiomatic language

• register variation

 

Word Identification & Content Vocabulary 

• phonics & decoding

• phonics instruction

• word recognition

• fluency 

• automaticity 

• sight words

• high frequency words

• General academic vocabulary

• Content specfic vocabulary

• Tier 1, 2, & 3 content vocabulary