Entry Three
https://youtu.be/xPjersRF6rM ELL students v ocabulary development is one of the greatest challenges to reading instruction for ELL's, in order to read fluently and comprehend what is written, students need to use not just phonics, but context. It is possible for students to read completely phonetically and not comprehend what they have read because they do not have the vocabulary. According to Ortega (2011) " These general-language coding and processing difficulties emerge most clearly in the areas of phonological awareness".For general language proficiency, bilingual children tend to have a smaller vocabulary in each language than monolingual children in their language. Their understanding of linguistic structure, called meta linguistic awareness. T he acquisition of literacy of proficiency in the second language skills in these children depends on the relationship between the two languages and the level of proficiency in the second language. When I asked my inter...