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Print This Page Name: Date: Challenge Sheet # 1 141 Apply Your Knowledge 1. Read the vignette and answer the question that follows. During a math lesson, Ms. Johnson puts her students in groups and asks them to solve the following word problem: There are two tables of different sizes in a banquet hall. One size seats five people and the other size seats eight. At tonight’s banquet, 79 people will be seated at fewer than one dozen tables and there will be no empty places. How many tables of each size will there be? Examine the list of CALLA learning strategies. Which strategies would you use to facilitate students’ ability to solve this math problem? Allowing the students to all have a try and including the students that don’t understand what’s going on as well. Take the problem step by step and breaking it down piece by piece. Chapter 19

Print This Page Name: Date: Challenge Sheet # 2 143 Apply Your Knowledge 1. Read the following description of the classroom interaction between an ELL child and his tutor: Ms. Jacobs showed Luis, a sixth grade ELL student, a calendar for the month of April. Then she asked him: “What happens in spring?” She then wrote out the word spring and showed pictures of flowers and hatched chicken eggs. Luis tried to answer her but could not (Luis’s expression indicated that he did not have the English words he wanted). He turned to the other children in the group and spoke to them in Spanish. It appeared as if he was asking them a question. The teacher kept prompting Luis by showing him the pictures of flowers and hatched eggs and saying, “Flowers grow and eggs hatch.” Luis looked at her, but kept shaking his head. He glanced back at the pictures on the calendar. He stood up and pointed to the picture of the Easter basket on the calendar. Ms. Jacobs then said: “Oh yes, Easter is in spring!” a. At what level of English proficiency is Luis? He is at a low communication of English, but does understand the English language. b. What communication strategies does he use to communicate with Ms. Jacobs? Eye contact and shaking of the head c. What other strategies can Ms. Jacobs use to facilitate communication with Luis? Hand gestures and pointing as well can help luis Chapter 19

Print This Page Name: Date: Challenge Sheet # 3 145 Self-Knowledge Base 1. Do you think students should be taught strategies for learning a language? What was missing in your previous study of a second or foreign language? What could have been done to make your learning of another language more successful? Chapter 19

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Print This Page Name: Date: Challenge Sheet # 4 147 Research on Your Own 1. Interview a second language learner of English. What were some communication strategies used by the second language learner during the interaction? Give examples. Chapter 19

Print This Page Name: Date: Challenge Sheet # 5 149 Apply Your Knowledge 1. What activities in Cummins’ framework of language and content activities should teachers use to gradually move students from using social language to academic language? Chapter 19

Print This Page Name: Date: Challenge Sheet # 6 151 Self-Knowledge Base 1. How would you find out what your students’ learning style preferences might be? 2. Do you think teaching styles should match students’ learning styles? Explain why or why not. Chapter 19

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Print This Page Name: Date: Challenge Sheet # 7 153 Research on Your Own 1. Conduct a library research on cross-cultural learning style preferences. Are there learning styles that seem to be preferred by ESL students from specific cultures? How will these differences in learning styles affect student learning? Chapter 19