Learning Strategies for ELL Students | Origin: ED202
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The acquisition of learning strategies is particularly important for your ELL students, because they’re likely to already have a lot of natural abilities in their own native laguage which they can draw from. The goal will be to have them improve these same abilities in English.
Students should be made to feel comfortable when taking risk to learn English
Do not think of ELL students as children. They still learn at a high level. Make students feel comfortable and encourage them to participate.
Between the cognitive, metacognitive, making sure that the students are comfotable and using respectful strategies to higher order thinking It all comes down to asking the right questions. By doing so the students are drawn into the topics and learning objectives and it gives the instructor insight on whether they are grasping the material.
Having students in your class that are learning english can be challenging for the instructor as well! The idea is to make them comfortable but not do the thinking/work for them, but to provide thought-provoking questions during class that will assist their learning.
These are excellent strategies depending upon the course of study. For example, nursing students have a rigorous undergraduate process to prepare them to meet the demands of the nursing curriculum. This has been accomplishing through English courses that have writing assignments, public speaking which allows the student to practice their speaking, etc.
Nursing is a rigorous program and students are gradually moved toward the ability to analyze data and produce an outcome. There is an additional skill that goes beyond critical thinking which is clinical reasoning skills in acute and long-term settings. With respect to skills acquisition, our skills laboratory is methodological with the procedures of all nursing skills which must be accomplished within a certain time frame.
I would like to see evidence-base strategies on how to accommodate this population. If one is too anxious other support services may be needed beyond that in the classroom.
These tips seem intended for high school ELL students. I wonder if these strategies would work with adult ELL students.
You need to make the ELL student feel comfortable and by doing this they will feel more engaged throughout the course. Never make them feel like you are speaking to them as a child, they are not children. They are learning another language!
The strategies mentioned are not only good for ELL learners, but for all learners.
WE SHOULD IDENTIFY A LEARNING STYLE THAT IS FLEXIBLE AND MATURE IN NATURE AND INSURES A SAFE AMBIENCE.
It is important to model thought provoking questions.
Using the cognitive and metacognitive learning strategies to help ELL are important. Do not be afraid to have ELL use higer order thinking skills when they are working on assignments. This helps them become more comfortable in what they are trying to complete.
We need to make ELL students feel comfortable so they can ask questions when they don't know something.
Having several strategies on hand .ie: Cognitive and Metacognitive is vital to helping ELL students in the classroom.
I have learned that there are many different strategies to aid handling emotions. I could see using journaling as a technique.
I learned that you should not look down on ELL students. Just because they come from another country or do not speak english, does not mean they do not understand what you are saying.
Use metacognitive and social/affective strategies to help teach ELLs.
We need to provide a safe learning environment so they can feel comfortable to ask questions and admit that they may not know something.
Stragities for Ell learners.
