Author: Capstonecronin

I created this site as my capstone project for a Master of Arts in English as a Second Language from Hamline University. My goal is to aid EL teachers with resources in creating a learning culture that supports the social-emotional needs of adolescent English language learners. This site catalogs some of those resources under four main categories: Culturally Relevant Pedagogy, Social-Emotional Content, The Affective Filter, and Differentiation.
Choosing Culturally-Relevant Literature

What is Culturally Relevant Pedagogy?

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In this post, I will define what culturally relevant pedagogy is and explore the benefits of modifying the curriculum and instruction to approximate students' home culture. Since the 1980s, anthropologists have been researching how home culture affects students’ academic outcomes and whether adapting instruction to mimic some of the aspects of students’ home culture can… Continue reading What is Culturally Relevant Pedagogy?

Creating Support

Technology in the ESL classroom

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Previously, I have written about how teachers can support comprehension by incorporating visuals in their curriculum. In this post, I explain how technology can be used as a powerful resource to support learners in the second language classroom. As a language teacher, I often find that technology is just what I need to perk up… Continue reading Technology in the ESL classroom

Creating Support

A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words

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In this post, I explore how teachers can easily incorporate visuals into their curriculum to support English language learners in the classroom. You could imagine that learning a foreign language is a daunting task. This is particularly true when students find themselves in an immersion classroom not speaking the primary language. Unless language teachers make… Continue reading A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words