1. Aligning Language of Non –
Mainstreaming English
Stages of Language
Proficiency
Ms. Edna Buendia Salomon
Discussant

2. Objectives
At the end of the oral presentation, the learners
should be able to:
define mainstreaming;
tell the importance of mainstreaming
in teaching listening and speaking ;

3. define language proficiency;
cite the stages of language
proficiency;
explain why mainstreaming is related
to language proficiency and
participate actively in the language
proficiency session

4. What is mainstreaming?
• if listening is an essential building block for the
development of other skills, mainstreaming is
the bridge to language proficiency

5. Why is it important?
•
four percent of the world’s population
speaks one or more of the thousands of
minority languages found around the
globe. Yet minority-language speakers
make up almost 50% of the world’s nonliterate population.

6. Basic Principles
• We learn best when we can use what we
know to understand what is new.
• We only learn to read once.
• When we learn an academic concept in our
own language, we will understand and be able
to use that concept in any other language that
we learn.

7. • We feel better about ourselves when our
heritage language and culture are affirmed
rather than ignored or denigrated.
• Using children’s own language in formal
education acknowledges and honors the place
of all languages and their associated cultures.

8. Bilingual Education
Transitional Bilingual
Education
Two-Way or Dual Language
Immersion Bilingual
Education

9. Involves education in a child's native
language, typically for no more than three
years, to ensure that students do not fall
behind in content areas like
mathematics, science, and social studies while
they are learning English.

10. Teachers do not repeat or translate the
subject matter in second language but
strengthen concepts taught in one language
across the two languages in a spiral
curriculum in order to provide cognitive
challenge(Thomas & Collier. 1997). The
languages of instructions are alternated by
theme or content area.

11. What is Language Proficiency
• advancement of a person in knowledge or
skills
• ability of a person to comprehend and
express his idea with fluency in a certain
language

12. Stages of Language Proficiency
Level 1: Basic
Level 4: Proficient
Level 2: Low Intermediate
Level 3: High
Intermediate
Level 5: Advanced Proficient

13. • students at this level have very limited or no
understanding of English.
• rarely use English for communication

14. • students can understand short conversations
on simple topics.
• students rely on familiarity, repitition, gesture
and non – verbal cues.

15. • students can understand standard speech
delivered in most setting with some repetition
and rewording.
• students can understand the main idea and
some details of extended discourse.

16. • students have adequate language skills for
day – to – day communication although
occasional structural and lexical errors still
occur.

17. • students demonstrate English proficiency
where in they are expected to participate fully
with their peers in grade level content area
classes.