EAL Gr. 9

ELL-  English Language Learners

Students need English for two reasons: social and academic. While participating as fully as possible in the academic learning of the regular classroom, students whose first language is not English are given social, academic and language support from a trained ELL teacher.

Aims of the ELL Department

• to facilitate the orientation and integration of new ELL students into their new school environment
• to provide a variety of positive opportunities for the ELL students to establish and maintain social relations within the school through the use of English language
• to provide the students with the language skills and strategies necessary to work successfully in the mainstream classes
• to assist the students to integrate successfully into the content-based academic program by making the activities and texts of mainstream classes accessible
• to support language learning by working cooperatively with the mainstream teacher
• to provide as much individualized instruction as possible in order to give optimal support to each student’s linguistic development
• to foster linguistic and cultural awareness among students, teachers, and parents