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S1-23. Improving dual language instruction: Elizabeth Jiménez Salinas
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Multilingual author and expert Elizabeth Jimenez Salinas and host Susan Lambert discuss advocating for underrepresented English Learners (EL), improving dual language instruction, and learned passivity. Elizabeth shares tips for EL students during this time and reinforces the importance of home connection and language development.
Quotes:
“English learners are put at a serious disadvantage by a school system that doesn’t use their home language.”
“It is not just learning to recite rote words–it is comprehending and using the home language for parents.”
Resources:
Eradicating Learned Passivity: Preventing ELs from Becoming Long Term English Learners
Ten behavioral skills that interpreters need to know
Reparable Harm
Students train as interpreters, with benefits for all involved
Multicultural Author Project
Want to discuss the episode? Join our Facebook group Science of Reading: The Community.
142 episodes
Manage episode 264678866 series 2565564
Multilingual author and expert Elizabeth Jimenez Salinas and host Susan Lambert discuss advocating for underrepresented English Learners (EL), improving dual language instruction, and learned passivity. Elizabeth shares tips for EL students during this time and reinforces the importance of home connection and language development.
Quotes:
“English learners are put at a serious disadvantage by a school system that doesn’t use their home language.”
“It is not just learning to recite rote words–it is comprehending and using the home language for parents.”
Resources:
Eradicating Learned Passivity: Preventing ELs from Becoming Long Term English Learners
Ten behavioral skills that interpreters need to know
Reparable Harm
Students train as interpreters, with benefits for all involved
Multicultural Author Project
Want to discuss the episode? Join our Facebook group Science of Reading: The Community.
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