EALD Pedagogy Principles

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Message abundancy

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Repeated exposure to new learning

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Known to unknown

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Starting with what students know and then moving to what they don't know

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Input hypothesis

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Comprehensible input – i+1

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Prolepsis

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Students as experts

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Talking to learn

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Communicative activities

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Collaborative learning

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Learning with and from each other

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Metalanguage

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The language used to talk about or describe language

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Additive bilingualism

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Valuing and maintaining a student's home language

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Cultural capital

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Valuing the literacy, cultural and other knowledge and practices EAL/D students bring

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Schema theory

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Teaching  EAL/D students the cultural knowledge that they do not have