Term
Summer 2017
Capstone
Thesis
Degree Name
MAESL
Primary Advisor/Dissertation Chair
Ann Mabbott
Secondary Advisor/Reader One
Amy Hewett-Olatunde
Peer-Reviewer/Reader Two
Sonya Zuker
Abstract
My research seeks to answer the questions How can students gauge their own prosody of targeted collocations?, What feedback and strategies can content teachers use to aid students? and Can a holistic rubric aid students’ learning to produce academic collocations?. To answer these questions I designed a study given to six sixth grade level four and five English language learners (ELs). Eight academic collocations were chosen from the students’ social studies textbook as the targeted language. The research examined the ELs’ language use using a holistic speaking and writing rubric designed for teacher assessment and a student self-monitoring sheet. The assessment results were then compared with the students’ self-assessments. The paper discusses challenges ELs face in the mainstream classroom and suggests strategies teachers can use in the classroom to further promote language mastery in both speaking and writing domains.
Research Methodology
Case Study, Curriculum Development, Observation
Keywords
Assessment, ESL/ ELLs
Recommended Citation
Hernandez, Nell Duffy, "Teaching Academic Language And Prosody Through Content-Related Collocations" (2017). School of Education and Leadership Student Capstone Theses and Dissertations. 4366.
https://digitalcommons.hamline.edu/hse_all/4366