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Language Correlates of Disciplinary Literacy
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Fang, Zhihui – Topics in Language Disorders, 2012
Disciplinary literacy is defined here as the ability to engage in social, semiotic, and cognitive practices consistent with those of content experts. Characterizing literacy development as a process of braiding 3 language strands of everyday language, abstract language, and metaphoric language, this article describes the lexical and grammatical…
Descriptors: Intellectual Disciplines, Literacy, Language Patterns, Grammar