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Taylor, Karen S.; Lawrence, Joshua F.; Connor, Carol M.; Snow, Catherine E. – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2019
The Common Core State Standards (Common Core State Standards Initiative, 2010) feature argumentative writing across the curriculum in grades 4 through 12, yet little is known about how young adolescents develop the challenging advanced language and literacy skills needed for these tasks. This study explored productive academic language use in the…
Descriptors: Persuasive Discourse, Middle School Students, Early Adolescents, Writing Assignments
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Figueroa, Javiera; Meneses, Alejandra; Chandia, Eugenio – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2018
Writing is a task that entails high cognitive and linguistic efforts, especially when producing academic texts. Academic language might be one of the factors influencing the quality of written texts, given that prior research has shown its impact on reading comprehension. The purpose of this study is to examine the contribution of Spanish Core…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Writing (Composition), Spanish, Language Skills
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Dobbs, Christina L.; Kearns, Devin – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2016
Understanding academic vocabulary is essential to student success in school. Use of academic vocabulary words in writing is considered one of the strongest measures of how well a reader understands a given word. In theory, willingness to use academic vocabulary in writing indicates the complexity of acquiring representations of the word's…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Academic Discourse, Writing (Composition), Essays