Education Quotes by James Crawford

“Yet SIOP, without advancing any explanation, puts “language objectives” on a par with “content objectives” and teaches both explicitly.”

— James Crawford

“Krashen’s insistence that a sheltered classroom consists of second language learners only.”

— James Crawford

“Teachers needed to emphasize the message, not the medium. Ideally, the curriculum should be so engaging that students would forget which language…

— James Crawford

“Scaffolding is applied in this context, not to engage students through authentic and meaningful activities, but to transmit a designated set of…

— James Crawford

“conscious learning remains the method and goal of skill-building models. To the extent that students acquire any language at all in such…

— James Crawford

“A highly structured, prescriptive model of sheltering and scaffolding is not necessary for effectively educating English learners. In fact, mandating any approach…

— James Crawford

“SIOP’s authors never explain the benefits of standardization; yet standardization was clearly their intent. They say they first conceived of SIOP “as…

— James Crawford

“SIOP is teacher-centric, a classic transmission model. Sadly, this approach is all too common in the education of low-income and minority students…

— James Crawford

“the federal Institute of Education Sciences reviewed these studies and found all of them lacking—that is, none could “establish that the comparison…

— James Crawford

“Nevertheless, in the field of second and foreign language teaching, behaviorist pedagogy—i.e., direct instruction in various forms—maintains a large following, which seems…

— James Crawford

“SIOP developers approached their project from the opposite direction. They began by announcing a model of sheltered instruction, incorporating a list of…

— James Crawford

“Advancing no particular theory of their own, some insist that explicit teaching of grammar, vocabulary, semantics, pragmatics, and even pronunciation is necessary…

— James Crawford

“BOTH PEARSON EDUCATION AND THE NONPROFIT Center for Applied Linguistics (CAL) have promoted SIOP as an all-purpose educational product: a tool for…

— James Crawford

“Well, that’s comforting. A growing body of research suggests that SIOP may not be harmful to English learners and might even be…

— James Crawford