Blog Entry 4
Before enrolling in this course, I felt like I had some prior knowledge about ELLs from taking CUIN 4303: Second Language Acquisition. I also thought that with my experience as an English language learner and being surrounded by ELLs that I would be able to understand them more, but it wasn’t the case. I would find myself struggling at times throughout the course. From this course, I personally learned a lot of terminology. Connections were made when I realized that I was already did or know some of the practices that I didn’t know have a name for them. I enjoyed learning about teaching ELLs across age levels and especially about language skills such as listening, speaking, reading, and writing. In this class, I got the chance to learn many different kinds of strategies or techniques to use to both instruct and assess ELLs. A problem that I have been experiencing lately in my student teaching class is whether I should correct an error or not and if I do, ...