Saturday, April 2, 2011

Technology With Strategies

One of the strategies I would use is the nonlinguistic representation.  The reasoning on this is, studies have shown that Alaskan and American Indians comprehend more from nonlinguistic strategies (Butters, 1991).
The product of any language learning context is the result of a dynamic interplay of the experiences and the prior cognitive and affective characteristics (Gardner, 1999).  My class is 100% Alaskan Eskimo, and 80% are LEP,  Limited English Proficient.  I use many Discovery Education's streaming movies, You Tube, and Google Earth as much as possible in my lessons.  I also use summarizing and note taking strategies.  I like to introduce my lessons with brainstorming and use some type of chart, such as kwl, or venn diagrams where the students can take notes.  This will guide them through their task.

Reference
 Ronald R. Butters (1991). Dennis R. Preston, <i>Perceptual dialectology: Nonlinguists' views of areal linguistics</i> (Topics in Sociolinguistics, 7). Dordrecht, Holland, and Providence, RI: Foris, 1989. Pp. xviii + 142.. Language in Society, 20, pp 294-299 doi:10.1017/S0047404500016419

Gardner, Howard. (1999) "Intelligence Reframed: Multiple Intelligences for the 21st Century." New York: Basic Books.

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