{"id":436,"date":"2013-10-01T21:06:25","date_gmt":"2013-10-02T04:06:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lled360\/?p=436"},"modified":"2013-10-01T21:06:25","modified_gmt":"2013-10-02T04:06:25","slug":"finally-posting-first-week-reading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lled360\/2013\/10\/01\/finally-posting-first-week-reading\/","title":{"rendered":"Finally Posting First Week Reading"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just re-read the chapter to refresh myself on the content and again I am struck by how &#8220;lucky&#8221; I was to have been brought up in a well educated, middle class home. \u00a0Given my personality, that I tend to take the path of least resistance, if I did not have that advantage I may not have gone as far as I have in school. \u00a0Thinking back, I feel that sometimes the only reason I passed some courses was my understanding and ability to use academic language.<\/p>\n<p>I agree with the author&#8217;s conclusion that accepting the students&#8217; language and teaching them academic English should both be done. \u00a0Accepting their language will engage the students in class and their work, meanwhile the use of academic language should encouraged as it will be needed further on in their education.<\/p>\n<p>Tying this into more current readings, I see no reason why this could not be done with ELLs, assuming the teacher is fluent in the mother tongue of the students. \u00a0Though, if done in a class setting, more time should be given to the subject as the class becomes both a class of what ever the subject is and a language course.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just re-read the chapter to refresh myself on the content and again I am struck by how &#8220;lucky&#8221; I was to have been brought up in a well educated, middle class home. \u00a0Given my personality, that I tend to take the path of least resistance, if I did not have that advantage I may [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lled360\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lled360\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lled360\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lled360\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lled360\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=436"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lled360\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":440,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lled360\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436\/revisions\/440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lled360\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lled360\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lled360\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}