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Angelos Charalampous; Maria Darra – Journal of Education and Learning, 2025
The role of teacher's feedback in the teaching and learning process is extremely important as it allows educators to provide an objective assessment of a student's performance and help them improve their academic achievements. In this paper, the findings of a comprehensive literature review, conducted using the PRISMA methodology, encompassing 19…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Academic Achievement, Student Evaluation, Student Improvement
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August, Diane; Barr, Christopher; Carlson, Coleen; Johnston, Will Tad; Marken, Alexandra – Bilingual Research Journal, 2023
This study investigated the effectiveness of an intervention designed to support sixth-grade Spanish-speaking English as Additional Language (EAL) learners and their English proficient classmates in acquiring pre-algebra knowledge and skills and associated academic vocabulary. The sample consisted of 88 EAL learners and their 139 English…
Descriptors: Intervention, Second Language Learning, English Language Learners, Mathematics Skills
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Rafaela Cleeve Gerkens; Richard Sallis; Annemaree O'Brien – Research in Drama Education, 2024
This paper reports on a major study which examined how middle-primary teachers (of students aged 8-10) in Australia used drama-rich pedagogy in their literacy programs to support the development of academic language proficiency, a critical element of ongoing student progress in literacy beyond the early years. Despite its proven status as a…
Descriptors: Drama, Teaching Methods, Elementary School Teachers, Literacy Education
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Frieda N. Shingenge – South African Journal of Childhood Education, 2024
Background: Although students in teacher education programmes in Namibia study through the medium of English, their academic language (AL) proficiency remains a challenge for most of them. In the Junior Primary Education programmes, they are not only required to master AL for their own studies, but they must also learn how to teach emergent…
Descriptors: Language Proficiency, Universities, COVID-19, Pandemics
Georgia Earnest García – Guilford Press, 2025
This research-based, highly practical volume presents ways teachers and schools can accelerate literacy achievement with bilingual K-6 students in both English and their home languages. Georgia Earnest García shares innovative instructional strategies for students with different language backgrounds in multiple settings--bilingual/ESL classrooms,…
Descriptors: Literacy Education, Bilingualism, Evidence Based Practice, Kindergarten
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Geraldine Caleta; Elizabeth Carrington; Natasha Pullen – Australian Primary Mathematics Classroom, 2024
This article presents a story of practice regarding how a primary school addressed the issue of supporting English as an additional language or dialect (EAL/D) learners to communicate and reason in mathematics. A shared understanding across the school uncovered teachers have a critical role in supporting EAL/D learners and their acquisition and…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Task Analysis
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Rivera, Mabel O.; McKeithan, Glennda K. – Learning Disabilities Research & Practice, 2022
Meeting the needs of English learners (ELs) effectively must be an individualized, purposeful, and data-driven process. Progress monitoring can help practitioners to target their EL students' most significant academic and linguistic needs and, subsequently, develop and deliver instructional programming that may help students develop to their…
Descriptors: English Language Learners, Course Content, Teaching Methods, Academic Language
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Marco MacFarlane – South African Journal of Education, 2024
With this article I explore the relationship between core academic language skills (CALS) -- a construct representing a set of high-utility language skills needed to manage the linguistic features prevalent in academic texts across content areas -- and schooling outcomes. There has long been an understanding that there is a distinction between…
Descriptors: Academic Language, Language Proficiency, Grade 6, Elementary School Students
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Molle, Daniella; de Oliveira, Luciana C.; MacDonald, Rita; Bhasin, Anshika – TESOL Journal, 2021
This article discusses the role of vocabulary learning in supporting multilingual students' participation in disciplinary practices and discourses in K-12 content-area classrooms. First, the authors discuss the strengths and limitations of incidental and intentional vocabulary learning. They then propose a new approach to vocabulary instruction in…
Descriptors: Incidental Learning, Vocabulary Development, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Hoff, Meagan A.; Reynolds, Jessica S. – Adult Literacy Education, 2022
For linguistically diverse students, the path to college is often defined by language. Depending on assessments and institutional policies, students may be placed into course sequences in developmental English, adult basic education, and/or English as a Second Language courses. The purpose of this study was to better understand developmental…
Descriptors: Language Attitudes, College Readiness, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Hernberg, Stacey – BC TEAL Journal, 2020
In British Columbia's K-12 schools, five years of funded English Language Learning support is frequently not enough to help English language learners fully develop their English language proficiency. This critical analysis examines the literature on metacognition and language learning to find practical metacognitive instructional features to equip…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Metacognition, Second Language Learning, English Language Learners
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Moore, Jason; Schleppegrell, Mary – Theory Into Practice, 2020
In this article, we show how close attention to language throughout a socio-scientific investigation supports upper elementary Arabic-speaking students to learn English while participating in valued disciplinary practices in science. Engagement in reading and writing with a focus on language also enables them to bring critical perspectives to the…
Descriptors: Academic Language, Elementary School Students, Content Area Reading, Content Area Writing
Tiffany Nadine Waller – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Academic vocabulary is one of the most important skills needed in language learning, but it may be difficult for students whose native language is not English. The purpose of this qualitative study is to investigate how classroom core subject teachers at Middle School 55 (pseudonym) perceive their ability to implement specific instructional model…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Middle School Students
Magaly Lavadenz; Elvira G. Armas – Multilingual Matters, 2024
This book presents a validated observation instrument to support and further develop the pedagogic expertise of teachers of English Learners in US schools. Based on sociocultural and second language teaching and learning theories, the Observation Protocol for Academic Literacies (OPAL) has a variety of uses across teacher preparation programs,…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Bilingualism, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Wood, Carla; Schatschneider, Christopher – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2022
The aims of the current project were to: (1) describe average change in the use of academic words across the school year in writing and (2) examine potential predictors of growth in academic word use in response to morphology-focused supplemental instruction. Investigators utilized written expository responses of 824 students in 5th grade before…
Descriptors: Morphology (Languages), Academic Language, Language Usage, Second Language Learning
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