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Bolstering Vocabulary with Teacher Talk in the Classroom

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How to Work With Multilingual Learners

When working with students who are just learning English or just learning a new language we talk about comprehensible input Stephen Krashen's term that the level of language should be slightly above the students listening comprehension. So if we use too many words in the beginning and we're talking too much you're going to lose them so what we suggest is that you start with maybe a word or a phrase once you have established that the students understand that word or that concept then like Carmen said you're using the gestures You're using the picturesYou're using multi-mode different modes of helping scaffolding to help the students understand the language. I think that's that's really clear and you know the more we

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