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| Title | Strategies for Supporting Literacy Development of Second-Language Learners |
| Body | From: OELA Newsline, March 30 What strategies are effective in supporting the literacy development of second-language learners? Bilingual Books: Promoting Literacy and Biliteracy in the Second-Language and Mainstream Classroom offers the following suggestions: * Introduce a unit or lesson by using bilingual literature that relates thematically to the new topic. * Support the transfer of reading in the first (L1) to the second (L2) language by having students with first language reading fluency read aloud . * Encourage independent and pleasure reading by offering books in the native language. * Use L1 to preview (and compare to) L2 reading. * Compare and contrast L1 and L2 cognates. * Emphasize home-school connections and family literacy. * Raise student and teacher awareness of multiculturalism and multilingualism. Bilingual Books: Promoting Literacy and Biliteracy in the Second-Language and Mainstream Classroom, by Gisela Ernst-Slavit and Margaret Mulhern, appears in Reading Online, Volume 7(2), September/October 2003. To read this article, visit: http://www.readingonline.org/articles/art_index.asp?HREF=ernst-slavit/ index.html |
| Source | Gisela Ernst-Slavit and Margaret Mulhern, Reading Online |
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