Supporting Dual language

Honor

Honor their culture by conducting research

Engage

Engage and celebrate studnets culture

Affirm

Affirm and allow children to speak their language if they need to

Read

Read books that reflect their background

Read dual language books

Take turns

Take turns and be willing to shift roles

Knpowlegable Leadership

Shared lidership

Continue to communicate and enhance your home language

Volunteer at school

Content knowledge

Social language proficiency

Academic language proficiency

Responsibility to support ELL students for all teachers

Strategies that allow to pick up the academic language at all levels of education

Access to printed text at school and home

Access to Interactive Websites for Learning

Create a welcoming school environment

Students who continue using L1 and developing literacy in L1 do much better at school

L1 is foundation for building L2

Differences between academic language and conversational language

Learning more than one language in the early years enhances brain development across social, emotional, and cognitive domains