BHS Chinese

Canyons School District

Instructional Supports Department

Best Practices for World Language

Practice

Teacher Moves

Student Moves

● Understand and use profciency level criteria to plan language activities and lessons.

● Know and understand end of year target profciency level ● Understand techniques that will support achievement profciency targets. ● Produce language at the appropriate level. ● Use English to ask for clarifcation when necessary. ● Use a variety of task-oriented activities that require sole use of the target language.

Profciency Level

● Use the target language (TL) building over time: - by the end of level 1: 50-70% - level 2: 70% - level 3, 4, 5: 90-100% ● English (L1) is used to briefy explain and clarify as needed. ● Teachers elicit language and provide many opportunities for production at the appropriate level. ● Themes and activities represent real world situations (ie. student life & culture. ● Culture is integrated throughout each lesson/text refecting its 3 dimensions: products, practices and perspectives. ● Content aligned to district scope and sequence and the Utah World Language Core Standards. ● Grammar is taught in the context of a communicative lesson, and regular feedback given to correct errors. - Explain, post and reference throughout the lesson stating what students will do with the language. - Use backward design to plan a lesson. - Language focus incorporates the three modes of communication (interpretive, interpersonal, and presentational). ● Comprehensible Input: - Build background knowledge. - Utilize actions, visuals, and realia. ● Explicit Instruction/I do-We do-You do: - Introduce new vocabulary through explicit vocabulary routine. - Use the modeling cycle providing examples of expectations and language ● Content & Language Objectives/ Learning Intentions/Success Criteria:

Language Use

● Learn relevant topics and themes that represent the real world context ● Use language to communicate in real world situations. ● Learn grammar by using it in a meaningful and communicative way ● Acquire awareness of the target language culture and understand differences between their own culture by comparing and analyzing its 3 dimensions: products, practices, and perspectives. ● Rely on actions, visual, realia and examples appropriate for their level to produce language. ● Rely on scaffolding and strategies for ● Use sentence frames to produce language. ● Speak, read, write and listen in the partner language. ● Understand and can explain the learning objective and success criteria for the lesson. ● Reference word walls, graphic organizers, concept walls. ● Know and recognize the three modes of communications when engaging in class activities. ● Students take risks and make mistakes. reproduction, comprehension and application to learn new materials.

Content

Core Instructional Strategies for Language Learning