A Seven-Step Instructional Plan for Teaching English-Language Learners to Comprehend and Use Homonyms, Homophones, and Homographs

Autor/inn/en	Jacobson, Julie; Lapp, Diane; Flood, James
Titel	A Seven-Step Instructional Plan for Teaching English-Language Learners to Comprehend and Use Homonyms, Homophones, and Homographs
Quelle	In: Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 51 (2007) 2, S.98-111 (14 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1081-3004
DOI	10.1598/JAAL.51.2.2
Schlagwörter	Leitfaden; Unterricht; Lehrer; Form Classes (Languages); Vocabulary; Teaching Methods; Grammar; Educational Strategies; Literacy; English (Second Language); Reading Comprehension; Middle School Students; State Standards; Summative Evaluation; Visualization + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Lesson concept; Instruction; Unterrichtsentwurf; Unterrichtsprozess; Teacher; Teachers; Lehrerin; Lehrende; Analytischer Sprachbau; Wortschatz; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; Grammatik; Lehrstrategie; Alphabetisierung; Schreib- und Lesefähigkeit; English as second language; English; Second Language; Englisch als Zweitsprache; Leseverstehen; Middle school; Middle schools; Student; Students; Mittelschule; Mittelstufenschule; Schüler; Schülerin; Visualisation; Visualisierung
Abstract	For English-language learners, comprehension can be hindered by a lack of understanding of homonyms, homophones, and homographs, but the right instructional strategies can alleviate this problem. Following a discussion of issues such as the importance of being aware of a student's literacy skills in his or her home language and the need to preteach key vocabulary words, the authors provide examples of a structured approach to teaching homonyms, homophones, and homographs. This seven-step instructional process, which incorporates reading, illustrating, comparing and contrasting words, and categorizing vocabulary by using symbols to represent grammatical structures, can be used to teach all students, but it accommodates particularly the challenges encountered by English-language learners. The seven steps are: (1) Reading and/or listening to a story; (2) Defining and visualizing words; (3) Identifying parts of speech; (4) Categorizing words; (5) Completing cloze activities; (6) Producing a skit or creating a visual; and (7) Playing a word game with new words. The authors offer explicit examples of instruction at each step and conclude with a discussion of how to assess students' proficiencies as they discern word meanings and begin to use words efficiently. (Contains 10 figures and 3 tables.) (Author).
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Update	2017/4/10