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Documenting the Language Demands of Mainstream Content-Area Assessment for English Learners: Participant Structures, Communicative Modes and Genre in Science Performance Assessments
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Bunch, George C.; Shaw, Jerome M.; Geaney, Edward R. – Language and Education, 2010
We report on the development and use of an analytical framework designed to articulate the language demands English learners (ELs) encounter on performance assessments such as those used in inquiry-based science classrooms. The Science Assessment Language Demands (SALD) Framework, grounded in functional and interactional views of language and…
Descriptors: Performance Based Assessment, Science Tests, Second Language Learning, Language Skills