"Kate Kinsella offers practical guidance on research-informed and classroom-tested feedback methods for teachers facilitating lesson discussions including English learners"
"For English learners to make vital second-language strides, they must participate daily in a range of supported academic interactions with their peers and teachers. Merely providing opportunities to “turn and talk” or “think, pair, share” will not ensure development of English language understandings and skills. When assigned interactive tasks without relevant language support and clearly established objectives, English learners tend to focus more on “friendly discourse” than on producing conceptually competent responses with linguistic accuracy (Foster and Ohta, 2005). Unless English learners spend some dedicated class time consciously applying precise vocabulary and appropriate grammatical forms, they are likely to stall in a linguistic limbo."
Read more at (Source): https://www.languagemagazine.com/2019/11/11/feedback-essentials-for-english-learners-during-academic-interactions/
Here are some Ellevation Education sheltered instruction strategies focusing on academic interactions in the speaking and writing domains.
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