Course Information

• Grade Level Recommendation: LPAC Approval (7-12)
• Credit: 1
• This course is designed to provide opportunities for secondary students who are recent immigrants with little or no English proficiency. It is specifically designed for students who have scored at the negligible/very limited academic language level of the state-approved English oral language proficiency tests.
• This course addresses cognitive, linguistic, and affective needs and enables students to become increasingly more proficient in English in all four language domains. This course will validate each student’s native language and culture as a valuable resource and as a foundation to attain the English language.
• It will help newly arrived and preliterate students develop social language, survival vocabulary, and the basic building blocks of literacy. Through comprehensible input, students will have access to curriculum that accelerates second language acquisition.
• This course prepares students by effectively integrating second language acquisition with quality content area instruction. Instruction will be linguistically accommodated in accordance with the English Language Proficiency Standards (ELPS) and the students’ English language proficiency levels to ensure the mastery of knowledge and skills in the required curriculum is accessible.