ESLAC: Spring 2016

1. Cognitive Academic Language Proficiency (CALP): Language that is used in the classroom and/or for specific content area

2. Common Underlying Proficiency: CUPS: The belief information from your L1 can be transferred to your L2

3. Student with Limited or Interrupted Formal Education (SLIFE): A student that has not attended school full time or that had more than a 6 month interruption in their formal education

4. Starting: The first level of Proficiency that is used to classify someone that has little to no understanding of English

5. No Child Left Behind (NCLB): A Law Passed by Bush in 2001 that put ELL students on the map

6. Sheltered Instruction: Lessons that are given in English, but they are catered towards speakers of additional languages

7. Basic Interpersonal Communication Skills (BICS)--this is social language that is used on a daily basis

8. Home Language Survey: A Survey all new students must take. It helps identify who might be an ELL, and identify those who might need support as an ELL

9. World Class Instructional Design and Assessment (WIDA): design and implement standardized for testing ELL Students. Create levels of English Language Proficiency.

10. Annual Measurable Achievement Objectives: (AMAO): Set by each state as a baseline goal for their EL students to achieve each year.

11. Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP): The annual increase in students learning English

12. Bridging: Students reaching the goal of being able to express themselves fluently