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This interesting TED talk attributes the growth, survival, and success of our species to our ability to speak language. This, coupled with our ability to exhibit social learning, has allowed us to spread throughout the world, modifying the environment so that it is inhabitable, even though our genes have not adapted to such environments in many cases, and cooperating with people from all around the globe. He points out that it is natural to want to hide good ideas from thieves (since we can copy each other thanks to our social learning/mimicry abilities) and isolate ourselves in order to do so. However, humans did not choose this path of isolation, rather we opted for a path of full world-wide communication and cooperation where we can build on each others’ ideas and work, but with rules and laws to protect us, all made possible by language. I did think it was interesting that the most language diversity found in the world is in areas where the people are densely populated (which was counter-intuitive to me). Now it makes sense that these people often have similar yet markedly different languages as a result of trying to keep the family/community business secret from near-by outsiders. A kind of advanced code language, per say.

So, what does this mean for ELLs? It means that we have to help them acquire academic and social English so that they may participate in life in America to the fullest. Love Test Flash File Download on this page. To do this we must do all of the best practices we have been taught including furthering advancement in the first language, scaffolding instruction, using models and so on. In the meantime we must try to get their view into the classroom by sharing for them or encouraging them to participate in ways they might have been too afraid to, or by celebrating their diversity and unique abilities with the class.