90 ¦ Differentiation in the language acquisition classroom
The Motivated Classroom
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How to Do Differentiation in a Mixed Ability Class
In language classrooms we have to try and make sure that we don't differentiate by task instead you want to give them different access and more tools so that they can access that more difficult task. There's quite a lot of research around this particularly from the education and downman foundation have done a lot ofresearch into this looking at the fact that differentiating by task is disadvantages to those with lower cognitive ability, he says. He also talks about ways not to do differentiation including dumbing down content for students when really they're able for better content but just can't access it because of language difficulty.
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