English-Chinese Picture
Dictionary
I am personally an ESL/ELL student. I immigrated with my parents to Canada when I was eleven 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.
In one of the strategies from the teaching strategies page, I talked about how the teacher can set up useful resources around the classroom such as bilingual dictionaries, posting word banks around the classroom with frequently used or subject-specific vocabulary to provide ELL students with an easy-to-access reference. The main part of my professional inquiry project is based on this strategy where I created a English-Chinese Picture dictionary. I created a series of powerpoint slides 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.
The following are the links to the powerpoint slides I created:
1. Keywords for Mathematics
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B2YtKUYuvP_ASnNpdG5PSF93LVk
2. English-Chinese Picture Dictionary
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B2YtKUYuvP_AUnNKN3JUVXF1QUU
In one of the strategies from the teaching strategies page, I talked about how the teacher can set up useful resources around the classroom such as bilingual dictionaries, posting word banks around the classroom with frequently used or subject-specific vocabulary to provide ELL students with an easy-to-access reference. The main part of my professional inquiry project is based on this strategy where I created a English-Chinese Picture dictionary. I created a series of powerpoint slides 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.
The following are the links to the powerpoint slides I created:
1. Keywords for Mathematics
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B2YtKUYuvP_ASnNpdG5PSF93LVk
2. English-Chinese Picture Dictionary
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B2YtKUYuvP_AUnNKN3JUVXF1QUU