ELL survey

• I have some experience interacting with children from a different cultural and linguistic background because I usually interact with my boyfriends younger cousin Erica, who is not yet proficient in speaking or writing in english.
• I can remember working with her on completing her vocabulary homework. When she first came from El Salvador about 4 months ago she was really struggling to get the lanugage and vocabulary down.
• In teaching ELL students in classroom I have not really had the opportunity to do that.
• In the case of Erica, She was so driven to learn the language and read in english. Everytime I would come over she would have me read a story to her. She was always trying to pronouce different words that she heard on t.v. When we were reading if she recognized a word that look familiar, she would say it in spanish and I would tell her the word in english.
• Ell students usally encounter alot of difficulties in school like not being able to complete the assignment because they do not understand the instructions.
• Classroom teachers resolve ELL difficulties by assigning different materials to better assist the student such as vocabulary list for different lessons.
• An intervention strategy that can be incoporated is seeking different resources for the student such as reading courses outside of the classroom.