Cross-Linguistic Connections

Cross-linguistic connections allow students to draw connections between their native language and the language that they are learning. These can be used both in the bilingual classroom and general education classroom allowing students to get a better understanding of the language they are learning with the assistance of their native language.

"Translanguaging facilitates cross-linguistic transfer and affords flexibility of first and second language use (Garcia &Wei, 2014; Garcia & Kano, 2014)" (Marrero-Colón, 2021, p.13).

Culture unit for Fifth Grade

for the pull out ELL classroom based off of classroom curriculum

for 2024-2025 there will be one bilingual English and Portuguese speaker who is not literate in Portuguese, one Portuguese speaker with low English proficiency who is literate in Portuguese, and one Spanish speaker with increasing English proficiency who is literate in Spanish.

Culture in English Portuguese and Spanish.pdf

The vocabulary here is vocabulary that is used both in readings in the pull out format and in the general education classroom setting. This is an activity I plan to do with the students that can draw a connection not just between their native language and English but their classmates native language as well. All but two words on the list share something in common with a word in English. I think looking at the words in this way will really help my students with this more complicated vocabulary.

This is an example for my classes which have students who speak and read Portuguese and Spanish.

I would start this wall at the beginning of the year and add to it throughout as we discover more cognates.

I think this is especially important for teachers to look at as well.

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