Sunday, July 7, 2013
Languages and Children: Chapter 10
This chapter is written for people like me! I am a qualitatively minded person, always trying to draw connections between the little nuggets of knowledge I know and encounter. Throughout the time in this class, I have brainstormed some content areas that would be best used for certain activities for effective SLA instruction. I want to make sure to create a respectful culture in my classroom that acknowledges the cultures of all students (and teachers) in the room, while providing an effective forum for teaching language and this chapter shows the need for that. Mathematics and science, of course, are listed among those content areas that most need language-related instruction. It was interesting to dive into the Connections Standards that stated that there are some aspects that students can only fully understand through the foreign language and its cultures.
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As the Bonnie Raitt song says,"Let's give them something to talk about." Like maps!:-)
ReplyDeleteI was trying to remember when I first understood maps and thinking about how much background experience might affect student responses to talking about maps. My kids, for instance, have a dad who thinks staring at a map is great fun so they've always heard talk of north east etc.