In the past seven years I have worked with children from Kindergarten all the way up to fifth grade. I have seen good use of both SLT and DLT and through these experiences I have had, I have a good understanding of how I would use both in my future teaching. I am currently working on my reading and ESL endorsements and have worked in the ESL field for many years. If I am teaching a 1st grade ELL class vocabulary, I would begin with a concrete object (realia) for the child to understand the meaning of the word and be able to put that English word to the actual object.
We would begin to start with another small word such as like and we would begin to use this in a variety of sentences. Ex. I like to play, I like to eat, I like to run. In addition I could write the sentence on a sentence strip and have the children repeat on their own sentence strip. Then we would cut apart the whole words. From here we would then have "puzzle pieces" that have a word on them and we would practice to put the sentence together while saying the sentence.http://brainathonemporium.com/order/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=68_69&products_id=356
From this as the child progress I could use SLT by beginning to engage other students repeating after me, I like apples. This would make me the more knowledgeable peer and gives the student a correct model of which to base their performance on. I would praise the children as they begin to come along in their sentence structure. EDUC#107
The ideas implemented here are terrific ones that definately incorporate Developmental Learning Theory as well as Social Learning Theory. I feel that this is truly the best way for students who do not speak any/proper Emglish to learn the language. It is not an easy task to teach, nor learn, but with the strategies provided in this blog, it will be an adventure that is definately worth while!
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