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English as an Additional Language Program for Elementary School
Teacher: Alison Mendres
The EAL program in elementary school is designed to assist newcomers to Canada with a smooth transition to a new country, a new culture, and a new language. |
The goals of the EAL Class:
- To provide a caring and comfortable place in the school
system for children facing a bewildering new
country and a new language.
- To assess, both formally and informally, the student's
English language skills.
- To develop an age/grade appropriate English language
program suited to the learning style of the individual
student, his or her native language background, his or her
educational background.
- To collaborate with classroom and subject area teachers
concerning the social, educational, and psychological
development of each EAL student.
- To refer students to any of the available support systems
as needed (e.g. speech pathology, Child Guidance Clinic,
resource).
- To integrate the student gradually into the school system
and into core subject classes and to wean him or her slowly
from heavy EAL support.
- To provide on-going assessment of the adjustments that the
student is making to the new surroundings and of the
progress that the student is making in all aspects of
communication - reading,writing,speaking, and listening.
 English as an Additional Language Program for High School
Teacher: Shelley Ross
The main goals of English as an Additional Language (EAL) Education according to the Manitoba Curriculum Framework of the Ministry of Education are fivefold:
- Assist learners in adding English to their linguistic repertoire and become proficient in English;
- Provide learning opportunities for learners to continue to develop intellectually and as citizens;
- Assist learners in successfully integrating into the school and classroom;
- Enable learners to benefit from school programming and to achieve the learning outcomes identified in the provincial curriculum;
- Enhance choices and opportunities for learners to access and benefit from adult and post-secondary learning experiences.
In the EAL high school program at Gray Academy, we have students who reap the benefits of a revolutionary program that makes learning a new language faster and easier than ever before. The Rosetta Stone Language Library is a combination of sights, sounds and words which represent a breakthrough in language learning; it can be viewed as a multi-media individual language lab where the aid of computers, headsets and handbooks allow students to navigate through the material at their own pace, using their respective natural learning styles.
With the Rosetta Stone, words become associated with objects and ideas because they are introduced in the context where meaning is clear and reinforcement is immediate. As this program uses carefully selected pictures to create its context of meaning, students work exclusively in the new language they are acquiring. The program uses the mind’s innate ability to associate sounds to meaning, without translation into the native language of the learner.
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