generally acquired more quickly than academic language
Cognitive Academic Language Proficiency (CALP)
academic language
what learners need to understand content lessons
generally develops more slowly than social language
funds of knowledge
multimodal literacy
meaning-making that occurs through the reading, viewing, understanding, responding to and producing and inter- acting with multimedia and digital texts. It may include oral and gestural modes of talking, listening and dramatising as well as writing, designing and producing such texts.
new media
means of mass communication using digital media
New Literacies
reading and writing text created by new media, including podcasts, video blogging, and social networking
critical literacy
exploration of which differences make a difference
voices to those who have been marginalized
how to act on social issues
Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Learners (CLD)
learners who come from a different cultural background than the culture of instruction
learners whose first language is something other than English
comprehensible input
the zone of proximal development in language acquisition