# Dual Language Learners in Early Childhood Classrooms ## Webinar Tips **1** Close any applications that use bandwidth or resources on your device To submit a question, click “Questions” in the webinar panel and type in **2** your question To minimize the webinar panel, click the orange arrow in the upper left of **3** the panel If you experience audio issues, you can switch to “Phone call” in the “Audio” **4** section of the webinar panel and use the dial-in information provided --- # Teaching Dual Language Learners ### What Early Childhood Educators Need to Know Get the essential knowledge and strategies to support young dual language learners in your classroom—and set them up for a lifetime of school success! **[https://bpub.fyi/Teaching-DLLs**](https://bpub.fyi/Teaching-DLLs**) --- # Survey At the end of the webinar, you’ll be prompted to complete ### a short survey. Let us know what you thought and you could win a free book! # Certificates ## Certificates of attendance are available for all ## webinar viewers. --- ## Dual Language Learners • Across the nation, educational systems are experiencing an increase in the number of young children who speak a language other than English at home and are learning a second language • Since 2000, DLL population in the U.S. has grown by 24% (Park et al., 2017) • More than 350 languages represented including: - Spanish (59%) - Chinese (3.3%) - Tagalog (1.9%) - Vietnamese (1.9%) - Arabic (1.9%) • Dual Language Learners (DLLs) make up a significant number of children in early childhood settings ## Goals for Today’s Coffee Chat • Explore ways to provide effective support for dual language learners in the classroom • Learn practical instructional strategies for promoting language and literacy development in dual language learners --- ### Positive Beliefs Promote Responsive Practices Teachers should continuously reflect on and examine their own beliefs. #### BELIEFS THAT PROMOTE CULTURALLY RESPONSIVE PRACTICES WITH DUAL LANGUAGE LEARNERS Ask Yourself: Do your beliefs align with your classroom practices? - **BELIEF 1:** Children are capable of successfully learning multiple languages - **BELIEF 2:** Quality and quantity of language input are important for language learning - **BELIEF 3:** Knowledge of a first language can support learning a second language - **BELIEF 4:** Bilingualism and multilingualism have many linguistic, cognitive, and cultural benefits Children can navigate different languages and cultures. ### Benefits of Bilingualism/Multilingualism - **Linguistic:** Learning one language helps in the development of a second or third language. Many skills transfer across languages. - **Cognitive:** Knowing more than one language can help with planning and regulating behavior, thinking flexibly, and inhibitory control. - **Cultural:** Children continue to communicate with family members, develop cultural competence, and strengthen their identity. # Focus on Language and Literacy --- # The Reading Rope ## Strategies for Developing Language and Literacy Skills with DLLs - Focus on language development and extended vocabulary - Foster phonological awareness - Integrate instruction on letter identification, decoding, word recognition skills - Support learning about book concepts and print knowledge - Engage students in early writing - Support home languages --- ## Language Development and Vocabulary **High Quality Interactions Support of home languages** - Engage children in hearing and using different words - Back-and-forth conversations - Opportunities to develop new words in context - Scaffolding--confirm, recast, elaborate - Reading books, listening to stories, singing ### Lesson Example: Focus on Vocabulary - A read-aloud lesson including activities before, during, and after the reading - Book Click, Clack, Moo: Cows That Type (Cronin, 2000) - Identify and pre-teach key vocabulary words - Connect to DLLs’ background and knowledge - While reading, explain the definitions - Present activities after the read-aloud --- ## Assessment of Language and Literacy Skills ### Systematic - Assess skills in the languages that the child is exposed to and uses to demonstrate what he or she knows and is able to do ### Developmentally Appropriate - Multiple sources of data - Assess learning that is connected to the curriculum and teaching in the classroom so that DLL children have an opportunity to learn these skills - Engage families in assessing language and early literacy skills, especially for determining children’s abilities in the home languages --- Questions? --- ### Special Offer # SAVE 20% #### at brookespublishing.com #### Use code ## COFFEECHAT --- ## Get Your Certificate Download your certificate using the URL below: **[https://bpub.fyi/DLL-Chat-Cert**](https://bpub.fyi/DLL-Chat-Cert**) # Thank you!