If you are working through this unit with a colleague, think about all of the academic language and critical thinking skills you used when analyzing Aadan's situation.
You needed to read between the lines and make some inferences about his goals and aspirations based on the information provided.
In discussing this vignette with a colleague, you no doubt used a lot of rich academic language, for example:
I think we can infer that Aadan lacks foundational academic skills because of his limited formal schooling.
That's exactly the kind of language adult English language learners need to acquire, so we will be calling attention to those moments in this module
when you use complex language and skills. Now that you have reflected on the kinds of skills and strategies you use in your daily life
and learned how a student like Aadan needs to acquire those same kinds of skills and strategies, it's time to move to formal definitions
and further examples of academic language, reading and listening strategies, and critical thinking.