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A Functional Approach to Evaluating Content Knowledge and Language Development in ESL Students' Science Classification Texts.
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Huang, Jingzi; Morgan, Glenn – International Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2003
Investigates use of a functional approach to discourse analysis--knowledge structure analysis, which focuses on meaning, form, and function simultaneously--to evaluate both writing development and content learning. Examined written texts in science, produced by English-as-a-Second-Language students with limited to intermediate English language…
Descriptors: Classification, Discourse Analysis, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries