How can you provide support for students, parents, teachers, and community

Part 3: Comment on two of your peers’ postings. (one paragraph for each one) (I will attach their response).

peers’ postings:1-Stacey BakerWhile this video is comical it really does ring true. English is an extremely difficult language to learn for non-native speakers, and even for children when it is their first language. There are many words that are not pronounced the way that they look, that are pronounced the same way but mean different things, and pairings of letters that make strange sounds. And don’t even get me started in the idioms of our language! I spend 3 summers in college teaching English to high school students in the Czech Republic. Many of them spoke several different languages already but found English one of the hardest to grasp. We used a lot of games and activities to try to help students learn the language.It can be very stressful and frustrating for English learners because they often think that they are saying things correctly when they are not. When they are continually corrected they become discouraged but you also do not want to encourage students to use language incorrectly. This brings up some of the strategies from the 6 steps of learning a language from a few weeks ago in that teachers and English speakers should model the correct pronunciation and usage. Instead of constantly correcting mistakes, modeling the correct usage prevents discouragement and students feeling defeated. Lucy did not do this correctly in the video! And Ricky obviously got frustrated and the instinct is to give up for to try to make other excuses. As a teacher with EL students you want to support those students.I think that many EL students would find this video funny because it really does highlight a lot of their most common struggles but in a comical way.2-Erica JovanesThis is one of my favorite I Love Lucy clips! I actually watched this clip in my previous masters program as well. It is so accurate as to how crazy the different rules of the English language can be. Talking with former ELL students both as peers and as students in my classes, many of them guarantee me that English is the most difficult of foreign languages to learn because of all of the rules and the exceptions to them. It is important as teachers for us to remember this when we work with ELL students in our classrooms. For every rule they learn, there is an exception, and in order to master the English language, it is difficult to memorize every rule and every exception. This is why it is so important to give students alternative strategies to help them when trying to learn to decode words in the English language. For example, if Ricky had used context clues, it may have helped him to predict the words he was attempting to decode. Providing ELL students will a toolbox of strategies will help them be able to utilize what they need when they need it.Part 4