Students that are having a hard time understanding language need something that they can relate to. ... One of Piaget theories is students experiences help build connections to the content by allowing a link to instruction. This theory leads to Krashen's theory of the language a student encounters must include language structures that the learner already knows (i) plus new structures (i + 1) in a combination that allows the learner to understand the message within the language. Linking Science as well as ELD into one requires comprehensible input, formally learning " of academic language,...

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Students that are having a hard time understanding language need something that they can relate to. ... One of Piaget theories is students experiences help build connections to the content by allowing a link to instruction. This theory leads to Krashen's theory of the language a student encounters must include language structures that the learner already knows (i) plus new structures (i + 1) in a combination that allows the learner to understand the message within the language. Linking Science as well as ELD into one requires comprehensible input, formally learning " of academic language,...

• Word Count: 770
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

What is the right language? ... My girlfriend's first language is Spanish and she learned English through an ESL (English as a Second Language) in elementary. ... Even though she was taught to learn English she still kept her language. ... Children's lives are too important for them to be the guinea pigs of our theories. We should not become attached to different theories of bilingual education to the extent that we lose sight of the reasons for education. ...

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Extensively, based on Vygotsky's ideas, scaffolding is employed as a major device to assist SFL approaches to teaching language in Australia, as well as it is used to improve the theory of ESP teaching and EAP writing teaching. ... To support the ESP and EAP theories, educators implicitly use several forms of scaffolding. ... For example students through support and scaffolding will be able to distinguish between academic writing and everyday language; as well as introduce them to the genres of academic writing by raising their linguistic awareness and guide them through their practices t...

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In a modern education setting, Paulo Freire's education-as-praxis theory would work best, because it allows critical cognitive skills, unity, and communication. Both Freire and Newman's theories both immerse in critical cognitive skills. ... In "Nobel Lecture", Toni Morrison writes a story about an old women (writer) conversing the importance of keeping language alive with a group of children (culture). She tells them the fate of language is their hands in order for it not to die out it cannot succumb to "static, "oppressive" and "sexist" language ...

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Thomas Edison was probably one of the greatest inventors of all time. He was born on Febuary11, 1847. He was born in Milan, Ohio, when electricity was still thought of as a novelty or fad by the society. As a youngster, Thomas asked questions constantly. In 1854 He moved to Huron, Michigan at age ...

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I am sure that everyone in here is familiar with this famous scene about a little girl who was deaf and blind. With the help of Anne Sullivan her teacher, Helen Keller learned to communicate through sign language. What you probably don't know is she was a strong advocate for the socialist party. Chr...

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