Cognitive Academic Language Proficiency (CALP): Teachers’ feedback to Arabick Sequential Bilinguals Primary School Aged Children
How to do the assignment in details (Please follow every things that I mentioned in good academic style):
You have to read the instructions on the file (How to do the case study) and to use the headings when you write this assignment.
Here how to do each head with details
case study is
1. Based on one person
2. Descriptive; not experimental
3. Detailed
4. Limited
5. Supported by close analysis of the evidence
In this assignment limited to the data that you can obtain in a maximum of one hour divided up as follows (roughly)
• 20 minutes of “getting to know”
• 20 minutes of targeted data elicitation
• 20 minutes of reflection with the informant/participant
(First part)
You have to make an interview and observation record video in English with Saudi child his age 10 or 11 years old. (Interview transcripts-Appendixes) –the purpose of this interview to get the Cognitive Academic Language Proficiency CALP feedback from the child , you have to focus during the interview how the child make: (problem solving skills-imagination-reasoning) , (Literate language-monitor and reflect on experience, and reason about –plan- predict experiences) , (Complex vocabulary-noun phrase-mental linguistic verb such as think, ,know, forget –(Adverbs words reflect aspects of tone, attitude, stress, intonation) , (Conjunctions such as and, but , because, before, next ..etc)
• First make the child feel relaxing to do this interview by asking him for example (What have he been doing in class this week?)
• The first step Playing game,, play with him the snakes and leaders game- aske him several questions like: (Before start the game ask him to give you the rule for the game-Why do you think we have to go down the snakes and up the leader-During the playing ask him how many times have he got free turn-let him to think for example, I wonder what will happen if we take the snack away or the leader away).
• Second step Reading story,, bring a good story which is rich of words and meanings , aske the child to read the story , then ask him (What do you think about the story- What is the best part of the story –What part did not he like)
• Finally, at the end ask him if he enjoyed and what he did today with you.
(Second part)
Now after the interview you have to write 5000 words essay be careful you have to make incite references APA 6 format , you have to back to my pervious assignments in the attachment (literature view- proposal). You have to follow these headings:
Introduction:
-Context: Second Language Acquisition (S.L.A) as following:
What do we know about how S.L.A- Definition about S.L.A – What is the main foucs when talking about S.L.A:
-Chomsky, How did Chomsky explain language acquisition? With incite reference, (back to this book How Languages are Learned-Patsy M. Lightbown & Nina Spada – Fourth Edition- Oxford)
-Piaget, How did Piaget explain language acquisition? With incite reference, back to this book How Languages are Learned-Patsy M. Lightbown & Nina Spada – Fourth Edition- Oxford).
-Vygotsky, How did Vygotsky explain language acquisition? With incite reference. (You have to find book).
-Today Cummins view about, English Language Acquisition, language functions (you have to back to my Literature review in the attachment to get some information about Cummins and other information for this study),Basic Interpersonal Communication Skills( BICS )and Cognitive Academic Language Proficiency ( CALP )what is left out in CALP.
-Then add my Research Question as following:
Which are the key features of English used by a young Arabic-speaking learner of English in spoken tasks that require Cognitive Academic Language Proficiency?
This question has two sub-questions:
1-how systematically are these features used?
2-do the patterns of use of these features suggest that the learner has some command of both Basic interpersonal Communication Skills and Cognitive Academic Language Proficincy?
-Aim: To use an interactive with a young child where I am engaging with him and providing student centered feedback to explore the effect on CALP.
Ethics:
You have to back to this book to write this section (RESEARCH METHOS IN EDUCATION-LOUIS COHEN, LAWRENCE MANION & KEITH MORRISON- 7th EDITION) page 442-443-75-77-79.
Write basic factual information about the ethics processes. As you know he is child parental Permission –Confidential…etc. (already hive the form I will let someone to sign) .
Case:
Participant information: (You will make the interview with one child his age 10 or 11 , but the instructions here you have to imagine that he is Saudi child who is living in Australia , because this is my topic). So you have to write in this section:
-His age.
-Background( Class I mean grade level which he is in primary school-language level in English fairly good-he speak two languages Arabic and English- Length of stay as he is living in Australia for 4 years- home country as he from Saudi Arabia-Language experience in English)
-Why is he a good choice for your study?
Language Feature:
In this section focus in BICS and CALP definitions and brief information – back to my literature review and see cummins definition and the information there).
Theoretical Framework:
In this section back to my literature review.
Define cummins’ in detail explain his theory CUP + CALP
Methodology:
In this section back to this book (RESEARCH METHOS IN EDUCATION-LOUIS COHEN, LAWRENCE MANION & KEITH MORRISON- 7th EDITION).
This section describes the methodology that you used to identify, collect and analyses the data
-Paradigm: (paradigm interpretive, define, why good for case study-pages 17 and 19 ). (Qualitative interpretive, define , and why good for case study , find in this book information for qualitative interpretive). (Please incite references for any information have token).
-Data collection: is a mix method ,define- 2 qualitative: observation and interview (define each one from the book).
-Data Analysis:
In this section back to this book (RESEARCH METHOS IN EDUCATION-LOUIS COHEN, LAWRENCE MANION & KEITH MORRISON- 7th EDITION).
The process to be used here is Discourse Analysis , back to the book page 574, define , why is good for this case study.
Findings:
This section based on data contained in the interview and language sample, what the boy said, did , did not do, how long it took, how was he happy concentration..etc.
Discussion:
This section evaluates the available literature review discussed.
-Analyses: this research findings to the literature review.
-Reflection on process: dose this case study here answer my questions.
Conclusion:
This section summaries the main points in this report.
Please the list of references (APA 6 FORMAT)
Appendixes (interview transcripts- back to the book page 575-576 to see the example how to transcript, transcript the interview with numbering.