07.02.13 ~ Curtain and Dahlberg - Chapter 5
This chapter focused on teaching reading and writing to younger students who are acquiring a second language. This chapter really hit home for me. I was interested to read that the research now supports that reading and writing should be introduced early, and that writing in a second language will not affect a student's progress in their first language. When I was teaching my students in Japan, I struggled with how to address reading and writing to young students. They were not required to read and write until middle school, but some were obviously ready earlier and seeing the written words helped some of the students a lot. I adopted an approach much like what was discussed in this chapter, by simply letting the students be exposed to the print without explicitly teaching it to them. In this way, many of my students learned to recognize and produce many words before they were in middle school. It made the transition to middle school English much easier on them, and so I agree with this chapter.
This chapter focused on teaching reading and writing to younger students who are acquiring a second language. This chapter really hit home for me. I was interested to read that the research now supports that reading and writing should be introduced early, and that writing in a second language will not affect a student's progress in their first language. When I was teaching my students in Japan, I struggled with how to address reading and writing to young students. They were not required to read and write until middle school, but some were obviously ready earlier and seeing the written words helped some of the students a lot. I adopted an approach much like what was discussed in this chapter, by simply letting the students be exposed to the print without explicitly teaching it to them. In this way, many of my students learned to recognize and produce many words before they were in middle school. It made the transition to middle school English much easier on them, and so I agree with this chapter.
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