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Montgomery, Joel R. – Online Submission, 2008
This paper will compare the uses of selected formal and informal assessments of English language learners (ELLs) in the Language Experience class [TRANSLANGEXP7(&8)-008] at Kimball Middle School, Illinois School District U-46, Elgin, Illinois, during school year 2007- 2008. See figure 1 (page 14) for a graphic display of these assessments…
Descriptors: Informal Assessment, Second Language Learning, Language Enrichment, Language Experience Approach
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Esling, John; Downing, John – TESL Canada Journal, 1986
Examination of cognitive prerequisites for the acquisition of reading skills identified two kinds of conceptual representations of language activities--functional and technical concepts. English-as-a-second-language students can transfer these concepts to second-language literacy, but attention must be given to orthographic coding principles of…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, English (Second Language), Language Experience Approach, Orthographic Symbols