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• Inclusive instruction. Language instruction should be an integral component of every
lesson plan. Repeated exposure to meaningful experiences across a wide variety of contexts
will reinforce and enhance learning. Daily instruction also gives you more opportunity to vary
your teaching methods and extend learning through the use of oral, visual, writing, and
reading exercises.
• Repeated exposure. Students should be given multiple exposures to a wide variety of
material and be encouraged to respond to texts through discussion and shared language
experiences. Repeating words, syntactic structures, and complex sentences will enable
students to connect words and ideas across a wide variety of contexts.
• Encourage deep processing. Students need to connect new words and concepts into
their working vocabularies. Develop daily speaking and writing exercises that encourage
students to respond to texts using new vocabulary, practicing full sentences, and constructing
complete sentences.
• Give it context. Make sure students can identify and use context clues across a wide
variety of texts. Encourage them to use sentence structure and word syntax to decipher the
meaning of unknown words.
• Instructional language. Students should also gain confidence in understanding and
using instructional language to help them meet their academic goals.

Explicitly teaching instructional language tools such as and/or, from/to, left/right, true/false,
before/after, first/last, then/now, if/then, here/there, near/far, inside/outside, top/bottom,
above/below, front/back, over/under, in front of/behind, next to/away from, in/on, and up/down
will develop students' fundamental vocabulary and language acquisition skills.

Perhaps the most important aspect of language instruction is your ability to accurately assess
comprehension. You’ll want to plan lessons that incorporate oral as well as written instruction to assess
diction and understanding.

Most importantly, language instruction is, after all, about expanding confidence and fluency with the words
we all use to communicate. Keep students talking and engaged. Ask questions constantly, and encourage
them to do the same.

Review:

• Learning language is a social process.
• Students use language to increase their knowledge of the world around them.
• Effective instruction in early language development can lead to accelerated lifelong
learning.
• Phonology is the study of speech sounds.
• Morphology is the study of word structure, particularly of the relationships between
words.
• Syntax refers to word order in the English language; we create some questions out of
sentences by changing the syntax.
• Semantics is the study of meaning in language.
• Daily language instruction gives students repeated exposure to words across a wide
variety of contexts and reinforces and enhances learning.
• Students need to integrate new words and concepts into their working vocabularies.
• Students should be given multiple exposures to a wide variety of material and be
encouraged to respond to texts through discussion and shared language experiences.