English As An Additional LanguageLearning the language of instruction while learning everything taught in it.EducationConversational fluency arrives years before academic language does.What to expectEveryday fluency in roughly 1-2 yearsAcademic language takes 5-7 yearsA silent period is normal and not refusalFirst-language literacy speeds the secondEAL is not a special educational needWhat helpsPre-teach the vocabulary a lesson depends onUse visuals, models and demonstrationsGive sentence stems for written answersAllow use of the first language to thinkAssess subject knowledge separately from EnglishEducational reference. Cummins distinguished conversational fromacademic language; treating the first as evidence of the second is aEnglish As An Additional Languagelearnposters.com
English As An Additional Language — printable humanities wall chart from LearnPosters. Free vector PDF, US Letter and A4.

What’s on the English As An Additional Language poster

10 entries in 2 groups.

Conversational fluency arrives years before academic language does.

Educational reference. Cummins distinguished conversational from academic language; treating the first as evidence of the second is a common error.

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What’s on the English As An Additional Language poster?
10 entries in 2 groups. Conversational fluency arrives years before academic language does. What to expect: Everyday fluency in roughly 1-2 years, Academic language takes 5-7 ye…; What helps: Pre-teach the vocabulary a lesson depends on, Use visuals, models and dem…. Educational reference. Cummins distinguished conversational from academic language; treating the first as evidence of the second is a common error.
Who is the English As An Additional Language poster for?
English As An Additional Language belongs to the Education section rather than to a school year, because humanities is not something one grade owns. Anyone learning inclusive education can pin it up — a beginner, a student mid-course, or someone revising years later.
When should you use the English As An Additional Language poster?
Use it when a new arrival's silence is being read as a learning difficulty. A wall chart earns its place by being glanceable from where the work is happening, so English As An Additional Language belongs on the wall where that humanities work actually happens, within glancing distance, rather than filed away.
What other posters go with English As An Additional Language?
Access Arrangements, Accessible Materials and Adaptive Teaching sit alongside English As An Additional Language in the Education section. Printed together they make a wall rather than a single sheet, which is how a reference set actually gets used.Access ArrangementsAccessible MaterialsAdaptive Teaching
Is the English As An Additional Language poster free to download and print?
Yes. English As An Additional Language downloads as a free PDF with no account, no email and no watermark, like everything else in the Education section. Print as many copies as you like for a home, a classroom, a library or a tutoring group; reselling the file is the only thing the licence rules out.Read the licence
What size does the English As An Additional Language poster print at?
English As An Additional Language is a vector PDF laid out for US Letter, and prints on A4 with Fit to page — the same file, no separate download. Because every mark on it is drawn rather than photographed, it stays sharp enlarged to A3, A2 or A1 at a copy shop. Colour carries emphasis only, so a greyscale print of English As An Additional Language loses nothing.Printing guide

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