Professional Inquiry Project
My professional Inquiry Project is based on ESL/ELL learners. The reason why I chose to focus on this topic is because I am personally a ESL/ELL student. I immigrated with my parents to Canada when I was fourteen years old. At the time, I could barely speak any English. I have experienced what is like to be an ESL/ELL student, that feeling of desperation and isolation when you don’t understand anyone and nobody understands you, that feeling of frustration, hoping that someone could understand and help you. Now that I got this great opportunity to become a teacher, I finally got an opportunity to research and seek different strategies that can help these students just like me. With a multicultural country like Canada, more and more people are immigrating here, meaning that more and more ESL/ELL students will appear in classrooms. Therefore, it is important for teachers to take this situation into account, to seek for effective ways to help these ESL/ELL students to maximize their learning.
I created a website that consists three main parts. The first part talks about the definition, codes, as well as characteristics of a ESL/ELL learner. The second part consists different strategies teachers are able to use in the classrooms to help the ESL/ELL learners. The third and the main part of the project is a English-Chinese Dictionary I created as a classroom tool. The PowerPoint slides are separated in different categories including numbers, colours, seasons, emotions, fruits, vegetables, holidays, animals, parts of speech, calendar, provinces in Canada, as well as a list of key words for math I gathered throughout my teaching practicum at the Killarney School. I also recorded my own audio for each word in both English and Mandarin to better assist students’ learning.
Here is the link to my PIP website:
http://ellstudentsinclassrooms.weebly.com/
I created a website that consists three main parts. The first part talks about the definition, codes, as well as characteristics of a ESL/ELL learner. The second part consists different strategies teachers are able to use in the classrooms to help the ESL/ELL learners. The third and the main part of the project is a English-Chinese Dictionary I created as a classroom tool. The PowerPoint slides are separated in different categories including numbers, colours, seasons, emotions, fruits, vegetables, holidays, animals, parts of speech, calendar, provinces in Canada, as well as a list of key words for math I gathered throughout my teaching practicum at the Killarney School. I also recorded my own audio for each word in both English and Mandarin to better assist students’ learning.
Here is the link to my PIP website:
http://ellstudentsinclassrooms.weebly.com/