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In our first reflective activity, we asked you to turn and talk with a partner to discuss different topics. In classes with emergent bilinguals, teachers can ask students to do a turn and talk using either their home language or English. This allows all students to draw on all their language resources as they discuss lesson ideas. They can report back to the class in English.

Allowing students to choose the language during a turn and talk can be extended to any small-group discussion time. Teachers may want to put students who share the same home language together for pair or group work. At other times, teachers might create groups of students with different home languages. The benefit of using linguistically homogeneous groups is that students may be able to communicate more fully and expand their language ability. On the other hand, if the groups are linguistically mixed, then some of the students will be encouraged to communicate in the language they are just beginning to acquire.

 Standards based skills: draw on background knowledge, explain, summarize