Tuesday, May 22, 2007

Interesting Video

This is a very interesting video I found that illustrates the steps that an English Language Learner goes through.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eoca1Ou_6TE

6 comments:

M. Tomich said...

Wow, Kristen--that was great--(on the right of the screen are a list of others to check out too...) thanks for posting this video!

Anonymous said...

This video was very informative. It was interesting to see the different phases each person goes through when coming into our educational system. During the speech emergence stage it was evident that the young girl was a bit frustrated by her grammatical errors. It was almost like she was thinking faster than she was speaking; I think we have probably all experienced this at one time or another. I've seen some students get embarrassed and anxious when this happens. Also interesting was when the older gentleman was talking about his experience. He told the interviewer that the most difficult part of the process was grasping pronunciation. I watched 2 more of the videos provided on the side and they were also pretty informative. Nice Find

Anonymous said...

I really enjoyed this video. Due to the fact I have much experience with infants and toddlers; ELL appears to be very similar to and child learning to speak for the first time. The steps and the progress is similar to eventually create a full dialog. It just shows how sensative one must be towards ELL.

Anonymous said...

I really enjoyed this video also. I can't even imagine the type of anxiety children and adults feel when they want to speak but can't find the right words or pronuciations to express themselves. My heart especially went out to the child in the speach emergence stage because these are the children who are usually misjudged.

Anonymous said...

This video was great! It was really interesting to see the different stages that an ELL goes through. Most kids like to talk, so when I was watching this video all I kept thinking was how frustrating it must be for children who cannot speak the language or who are embarrassed of their accent. Just imagine all that is going through their heads that they wish they could say! I was also amazed by how well the gentlemen who was in the "Advanced Fluency" stage spoke, especially considering he came here as an adult and only probably around 10 years ago. I have relatives that have been in this country for much longer and they do not speak nearly as well.

Mara said...

I love the video it was great to see the differents ways that people learn and that everything is a process. Teenagers learn one way even though it get frustrated for some like me when I came to US and toddlers they just learn everything, but we all learn baby steps..