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ERIC Number: EJ643731
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 2001
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Reference Count: 0
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ISSN: ISSN-0009-4056
"Snow Fighting with Spring": Building on Young English Language Learners' Thinking.
Fassler, Rebekah
Childhood Education, v78 n1 p25-29 Fall 2001
Discusses teaching English to second-language students. Suggests using learners' spontaneous expressions of ideas to recognize students' potential for understanding ideas in English. Recommends teachers help children see how their ideas affect the class; respond to unanticipated expressions of thinking; and extend the discussion with an array of expressive functions. (DLH)
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Communication (Thought Transfer), Communicative Competence (Languages), English (Second Language), Language Proficiency, Limited English Speaking, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Social Cognition, Teacher Student Relationship, Young Children
Publication Type: Guides - Non-Classroom; Journal Articles
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Language: English
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