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Project-Based Learning for ELLs with Limited or Interrupted Formal Education
1. Project-Based Learning for
Students with Limited/
Interrupted Formal Education
Andrea DeCapua
TESOL
Dallas, TX
March 2013
drandreadecapua@gmail.com
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2. Who are SLIFE?
• oral means is the preferred communication
and information-sharing mode
• used to pragmatic learning with immediate
relevance
• generally from collectivistic cultures and
more comfortable working together,
sharing responsibility
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3. Project-Based Learning
(PBL)
• Allows for differentiation
• promotes integration of literacy and
content knowledge
• improves student engagement
• student-centered rather than teacher
centered
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4. Needs of SLIFE
• learn basic and grade-level content
• develop basic literacy and numeracy skills
foster school-based ways of thinking
adapt to cultural differences in ways of
thinking and learning
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5. and from a MALP
perspective, PBL:
• fosters a sense of community
• provides immediate relevance
• allows for shared responsibility and
individual responsibility
• accommodates oral transmission with print
• promotes school-based ways of thinking
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7. Mutually Adaptive Learning Paradigm
SLIFE North American Classrooms
Immediate Future
Accept Relevance
SLIFE Relevance
conditions Interconnectedness Independence
Combine SLIFE & Shared Individual
North American Responsibility
Accountability
processes with
Oral
Transmission Written Word
Focus on new
activities with Pragmatic Academic
familiar language Tasks Tasks
& content
(Adapted from DeCapua & Marshall, 2009, 2010, 2011; Marshall 1994, 1998)
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9. Creating Theme
Booklets
• Step 1: Plan
• “brainstorm” (LEA)
• assign tasks
• wall calendar
• Step 2: Create
•
visuals
• text
• Step 3: Design and Disseminate
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10. Newcomer Booklets
Explain common procedures, routines
• school basics
• sharpening a pencil
• lockers
• the library
• community information
• the emergency room
• calling 911
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11. Fire Safety
911
by
Mrs. B’s class
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12. Fire Safety:
911
I am calling about a fire.
It is at _______.
It is in the _________
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13. Fire Hazard:
Smoking
Do not smoke in bed.
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14. Mrs. J’s High School
SLIFE
Where is_?
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15. This is the school library.
It is Room 234. You return books here.
It is on the second floor.
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16. These are lockers. This is a lock.
They are by Room 110.
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21. brainstorm
propose select
new focus
project
Project-Based
reflect
& Learning identify
evaluate
share delegate
implement
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22. Interested in Our Work?
websites:
http://malpeducation.com
http://malp.pbworks.com
Books (University of Michigan Press):
Meeting The Needs of Students with Limited or Interrupted Formal
Education (2009)
Breaking New Ground: Teaching Students with Limited or
Interrupted Formal Education in U. S. Secondary Schools (2011)
Making the Transition: Culturally Responsive Teaching for Struggling
Language Learners (Summer 2013)
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