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Alvarez, Laura – Bilingual Research Journal, 2012
Efforts to improve educational outcomes for English learners often focus on "academic language," but unfortunately the field lacks a clear, agreed-upon definition of the concept. This article reports on a design research study that focused on students' engagement in one academic practice over several months: reading and discussing…
Descriptors: Academic Discourse, Educational Objectives, Outcomes of Education, Second Language Learning
Parsons, Tom, Ed.; And Others – 1984
A vocabulary and list of important words in the Yurok language includes the history of a community project directed toward collecting and preserving the vanishing language and culture of Northwestern California Indians. An alphabetical vocabulary list presents English terms with Yurok equivalents in Unifon spelling and definitions in English.…
Descriptors: American Indian Culture, American Indian Education, American Indian Languages, American Indians