Language Development Webquest

Required Elements/ Format for your Language Development Project:

• Remember you are not only demonstrating what you learned, but you are creating a project that you could use to professionally develop others in your field.  Thus, this must be highly engaging orally and visually!
  
• There are 4 necessary parts to display on this Glogster poster project: 
  

SLOGAN COMPONENT:  You must have a catchy slogan: A slogan is a short phrase or sentence meant to gain attention and get a specific message across quickly

1. INSUFFICIENT SLOGAN EXAMPLES: First language and Second Language Development; Language Development
2. APPROPRIATE SLOGAN EXAMPLES (You may not use these): Keep Calm & Babble on...; 2 languages are better than 1
3. Underneath your slogan please include your first & last name and the name of this course!!

• The Oral Component will demonstrate your ability to use the research you conducted as required in the Task and Process tabs to answer the Essential Questions listed in the Task tab.
• You will demonstrate communication skills appropriate to working in a school environment with adults and students. Don't Just Read the information to your audience! USE your best voice to "teach" others!! You are the trainer/ coach/ teacher now! The best way to learn information deeply is to teach it to someone else!
• Ultimately, your narration/ teaching is a presentation! Pretend you are presenting to a group of people who are not experts like you are now!! 
• At a minimum , the narration/ oral presentation must be 10 minutes and at a maximum it must be 20 minutes in length.
• You will use the fact component outlined below to develop your oral presentation and response to the Essential Questions. 
  
  

There is no set limit to the facts, but you must address the following either orally or in written, bulleted form on the glogster:  

• Candidates will define what language is as a concept  based on the research they completed
• Candidates will explain first language and second language development in their own words
• Candidates will summarize the similarities and differences between first and second language development in their own words.
• Candidates will describe the Silent Period in their own words.  
  
• Candidates will define learning vs. acquisition provide at least 1 concrete example. 
• Candidates will define bilingualism.
• Candidates will explain how being bilingual can impact your ability to learn effectively and efficiently in English.
• Candidates will answer the question: does a classroom teacher or other school personnel have to be bilingual to teach an ELL student
  
• Candidates will justify their choice of their theory of human language development.
  
• And any other facts and vocabulary you think necessary to drive your message home and connect to the subject, objectives outlined in the Standards, and prior learning. 

VISUAL COMPONENT

• At least 2 videos that strongly relate to this topic. Videos cannot be used in lieu of narration; they are used to support your written and narration/ oral components. 
• They visually support the slogan component, the oral component, and the fact component
• At least 2 graphics/ pictures (try to avoid clipart) that strongly relate to this topic.  You could use charts, infographs, etc.

References: 

• References will be typed on a word document.
• You will reference resources using APA 6^th.  Make sure you are checking how to cite video and illustrations(pictures, etc.)