Additive Bilingual Education Approach

**Students’ native language must be used and their culture included in the teaching methods.

• Group learning: cooperative learning, scaffolding.
• Incorporates both school and community.
• Interactive and meaningful literacy experiences:
  • Role play
  • Writing dialogue
  • Open-ended discussions
• Oral activities to develop both spoken and written English
  • BICS: Basic Interpersonal Communication Skills (peer communication)
  • CALP: Cognitive Academic Language Proficiency (academic communication)

 

Learning Environment

**According to one LEP teacher the learning environment should be “perceived as safe for students, a support system – so they feel free to take risks, inclusive, realistic, and contemplative, and where knowledge is constructed.” (Torres, “Teacher-Researchers entering into the world of LEP students”)

 

**It should meet the needs of the student and provide that student with room to grow and play an active role in.