Courtney Boag

Professor Reilly
September 12, 2016
Reflection: Skit
The 5 stages of language acquisition are; pre-production, early production,
speech emergence, intermediate fluency, and advanced fluency. For the preproduction stage there is a silent period and transition into parroting as the students
becomes more comfortable. Many times the students will need a buddy to help with their
learning of the language.
The early production stage is the stage in which the students being to develop a
vocabulary. They will be able to speak one to two word phrases and will have developed
a 1000 word vocabulary. The students will also be able to answer yes and no questions.
You can practice with little questions that the students can answer yes/no about.
Speech emergence is the middle period of learning for the ELL student. He/she
will be able to read short texts and use phonemic awareness in their readings. Also at this
time, the students will be able to ask simple questions like, Can I use the bathroom?
Providing lower level reading prompts will help the student grasp not only the vocabulary
of a language, but also how to read in it.
At the intermediate fluency stage, the students will have developed a vocabulary
of about 6000 words. These students begin working on sentence structure and should be
able to start kid writing with the assistance of the teacher.

Last, there is advanced fluency that takes about 4-10 years for a student to master.
During this stage, the students can speak fluently in the language and have most likely
been exited from the ESL program.
There are four co-teaching methods that make teachers effective in their practice.
The first is supportive teaching. In supportive teaching, one teacher takes the lead of the
lesson and the other goes around and supports the students as they learn. To teach the
students effectively in this way, one teacher can stay at the board and teach while the
other student circulates.
The next method is parallel co-teaching. During this, the teachers take on groups
of students. Each teacher can be given a different learning level of students so that time is
divided among the students evenly.
Next is complementary co-teaching. During this method, the teachers break up the
lesson into instruction and modeling. For instance, one teacher can draw or model a
lesson on the board. Meanwhile the other teacher can describe the lesson being taught or
give a verbal demonstration of the lesson.
Last is the idea of team-teaching. This is when the teachers split up the lesson
evenly. In this way, the students can stay engaged whether they are learning about
something super fun or super boring. This can be used when teaching a lesson along with
an activity where the teachers have the ability to break up the instruction.

Works Cited
Haynes, Judie. "Stages of Second Language Acquisition." Stages of Second Language
Acquisition. N.p., n.d. Web. 14 Sept. 2016.
Teachers, By Teachers For. "Effective Co-Teaching Strategies." TeachHUB. N.p., n.d.
Web. 14 Sept. 2016.