ELL+&+QR+Codes

Quick Response Readers (QR readers) are those UPC looking codes that can be found almost everywhere. When you walk into a department store, stand at a bus terminal, or pick up a USA Today, you will find one of these codes. These codes direct you to specific websites and additional content. The codes were developed by Toyota about 15 years ago, but they can be used to help English Language Learners (ELL).

ELL’s need visual and audio support to acquire learning skills. Using QR codes embedded within worksheets will allow ELL’s to become more independent because supports will be in place. Teachers can prepare worksheets with a QR code on the sheet itself. The QR code can link to the specific content with additional pictures, audio, or reference material.

Students using this technology would need a device with Wi-Fi capabilities and a QR reader application. These applications are free for all operating systems. Students would need to know how to point and shoot using the digital camera device. Aside from these basic needs, ELL students would be very successful.

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Added by Angelia Brockington ====Quick Repsonse codes are an excellent way to engage students that are English Language learners. A worksheet, as you mentioned, prepared with a QR code can lead the ELL student to a site that encompasses the accessibility that is necessary to help them grow as an English Language learner. For instance, if a student is presented with a worksheet of this type, it can lead them to a site that translates what is written on the paper or other resources that could be of help. I have worked with ELL students before and one thing that I have found out is that some students are able to speak moderately fair English, but run into a problem when it is time to read the English language or to write using the language. In conjunction with the translator, the use of a text reader could be incorporated. With the use of a text reader, which of course would have the student’s native language as one of the options, the student will be able to hear what is read in their native tongue as well as be able to hear what it sounds like in English and be able to compare the two languages, which may help to further their understanding. With the text reader in English, the student will be able to have a visual as well as an auditory representation of the material that is being presented to them. This will in turn increase their understanding of the material, and the language overall. The QR codes are an excellent way to encourage and aide the ELL student to overcome their challenges with the English language.==== [] [] []