Strategies for Teaching English Language Learners

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The strategies used to teach foundational reading skills include reading to students frequently, teaching alphabets, supporting the student comprehension, teaching phonics, using audiobooks, supporting the native language literacy, and encouraging reading outside classroom sessions and establishment of an English language learning center (Kaplan, 2019). The English language learning center will equip the students with the learning resources such as ESL notebooks, picture dictionaries, tape recorders, and earphones that will aid the students to learn. Reading students daily is also another vital strategy for developing their foundational reading skills. Also, supporting the student's comprehension through reading techniques as a teacher will aid the students in developing their reading skills. Fourthly, the teaching of alphabets will aid in building the learner's letter identification. Teaching phonics is also a vital element that will aid in the development of reading skills. It aids in reinforcing certain recognition of letters that will aid in foundational reading skills. Frequently checking comprehension is also another strategy that will assist the students in learning and deciding accurate texts that are vital in developing their reading skills. Audiobooks are also another vital resource as they contain stories and they assist in developing the reading skills among the ELL students. Integrating the native language is also another way that assists in easier development. The use of the native language will build a rich vocabulary base in developing reading skills. Lastly, is encouraging reading outside classes as it aids in the development of the student's reading skills, which can be done by using the library resources.
Ten strategies are used for vocabulary development. They include singing songs, using cognates, labels of items, speaking to the students with a rich vocabulary, playing vocabulary games, teaching prefixes, introducing word pairs, and seizing teachable moments (McClymont, 2017). Singing songs is one of the easiest ways that allows the student to grasp easily and have rich vocabulary content. Second, the use of the cognate is whereby, as a teacher, one uses words in the two languages with similar meaning and pronunciation. The third method is labeling items in classrooms, and an example is the use of posters and maps as they easily assist the student in learning. Speaking to the students with language rich in vocabulary is another way to empower the student in vocabulary. Teaching is also another successful way to ensure that the students are equipped with the vocabulary. Sixth is relying on the text rich with vocabulary, and reading aloud to the ELL students will also assist the students in the class to learn the vocabulary. Plating vocabulary game is also another strategy used to ensure that the ELL students can grasp the vocabulary content. Teaching prefixes and suffixes is one of the powerful ways to teach vocabulary as the teacher can expand their vocabulary. Ninth is the introduction of word pairs as it is enjoyable to students an...