ERIC Number: ED359797
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 1993-Jun
Pages: 15
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Strategies for Monolingual Teachers in Multilingual Classrooms.
Towell, Janet; Wink, Joan
A group of instructional strategies for monolingual teachers to use with elementary and secondary school students with limited English skills are described. The strategies are drawn from a teacher education curriculum focusing on this issue. All are based on the notion that monolingual and bilingual teachers can team teach to break down linguistic and cultural barriers in the classroom. All were also experienced by monolingual and bilingual teaching credential students in the course of a demonstration. They include the Total Physical Response technique, sheltered subject matter teaching, use of comprehensible input, efforts to lower the affective filter of students, use of realia, dramatization of a story, and monolingual-bilingual team teaching for primary language instruction. Some useful student reading materials and teacher resources are noted. Contains 20 references. (MSE)
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Classroom Techniques, Cultural Pluralism, Diversity (Student), Dramatics, Elementary Secondary Education, English (Second Language), Intercultural Communication, Limited English Speaking, Monolingualism, Multilingualism, Realia, Second Language Instruction, Social Integration, Teacher Education Curriculum, Teaching Methods, Team Teaching
Publication Type: Guides - Classroom - Teacher; Reports - Descriptive
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Audience: Practitioners; Teachers
Language: English
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