Book Reading: How Can We Make It More Effective For Young Children?

Marlene Zepeda, Ph.D. California State University, Los Angeles

mzepeda@calstatela.edu

The role of socio-emotional development in learning The 30 million word gap-what does it mean for young DLLs? Stages in Second Language Acquisition The importance of Oral Language Development The Nuestro Niños Approach to Book Reading

Overview of Workshop

How Does It Feel to not Understand the Language of

the Classroom? (see video)

Socio-emotional development in DLLs in unique

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Taking place in the context of acquiring multiple languages. DLL children do not choose to be bilingual. Takes place through interactions with others within specific cultural contexts Child must negotiate between two competing sets of cultural expectations that have distinctive goals for socio-emotional behavior

Language is the key interface between our social and cognitive worlds. As a social tool, it is the means by which human interactions occur, social position is determined, and educational opportunities defined; as a cognitive instrument, it provides access to concepts and meanings, the logical system for problem solving, and creates the organizational basis for knowledge.

Why Supporting the Home Language Matters.

Ellen Bialystok

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Content Slide

Interdependence Hypothesis

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• Helps to form mental representations essential for learning • Strong first language development forms the basis for the development of a

second language

Concept Development

Rouge Bleu Jaune

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Stages of Second Language Learning

PHASE CHILD’S BEHAVIOR EXAMPLE

1. Use of Home Language Uses first language with English speaking peers and caregivers.

“Me cai del columpio.” (I fell from the swing.)

2. Quiet Period Remains silent when interacting with English speaking caregiver and peers. Uses nonverbal gestures to request help.

Jose stands in front of the caregiver lifting his arms, indicating he wants her to pick him up and put him on the swing.

3. Telegraphic Speech

Uses one to three words in English to describe a situation.

Vicente says “home” to ask if the children are going home.

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Stages of Second Language Learning

PHASE

CHILD’S BEHAVIOR

EXAMPLE

4. Formulaic Speech Uses language chunks. “Lookit.”

“Allgone.”

5. Productive/Fluid Speech Combines vocabulary and phrases already known into new sentences. Can maintain a conversation with an adult or child taking three to four turns.

“I writed the numbers.” “She not like you.”

Video: Soyul and Teacher Yvette

Documents a dual language learner and her teacher across fourteen months of preschool. The stages of second language acquisition are illustrated and approaches by her teacher and comments by her parents are incorporated. Available through Redleaf Press.

READ ALOUD AS A KEY FOR DEVELOPING COMPONENTS OF ORAL LANGUAGE AND EARLY LITERACY IN SECOND

LANGUAGE LEARNERS

PHONOLOGY – PRONOUNCIATION OF NEW WORDS SYNTAX – “CHUNKS OF LANGUAGE” VOCABULARY – NEW WORDS AND MEANINGS DECONTEXTUALIZED – LANGUAGE OF BOOKS LANGUAGE PRINT KNOWLEDGE – HANDLING OF BOOKS PHONOLOGICAL AWARENESS – RHYMES, ALLITERATION ALPHABETIC KNOWLEDGE – WORDS IN BOOK THAT BEGIN WITH THE LETTER

Example of a Storybook Reading Lesson Plan

TEACHER PREPARATION – CORE VOCABULARY

COCKROACH – CUCARACHA FLEA - PULGA NOISE – RUIDO CAT - GATO BEAUTIFUL – HERMOSO DUCK - PATO DOG – PERRO SNAKE – CULEBRA/VIBORA PIG – PUERCO/COCHINO/MARRANO/CHANCHO ROOSTER – GALLO FROG - SAPO BIRD – PÁJARO MOUSE – RÁTON SPIDER - ARAÑA FISH – PESCADO/PEZ BULL – TORO BEE- ABEJA CRICKET - GRILLO

STEPS IN READING THE BOOK

1. PICTURE WALK

2. READING IN THE CHILD’S FIRST LANGUAGE

3. READING IN ENGLISH

4. RETELLING

5. DRAMATIZATION

SHOW VIDEO EXAMPLE

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