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Download full textSexton, Waynel; Beegle, Rebecca – English in Texas, 2020
Academic language is the formal language that is common in books and at school, but that students are unlikely to encounter in everyday conversations with friends and family. Not only is academic language critical to school achievement but it is also foundational for the true comprehension of contentrich subjects. Academic language should permeate…
Descriptors: Academic Language, Academic Achievement, Thinking Skills, Visual Aids
Direct linkBurke, Patrick; Welsch, Jodi G. – Irish Educational Studies, 2018
The prominence afforded to literacy in the Irish Primary School Curriculum has received considerable attention in recent years, spurred by Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) rankings, governmental priorities, public commentary and academic debate. At times, this discourse has presented literacy as a separate and distinct entity…
Descriptors: Elementary School Curriculum, Literacy, Curriculum Development, Integrated Curriculum
McQuillan, Jeff – Reading in a Foreign Language, 2016
In his 2016 article, "What Can Readers Read after Graded Readers?" (EJ1098660), Jeff McQuillan provided data to show that there is an adequate amount of reading material that can be read at or above 98% vocabulary coverage to provide sufficient input to acquire most of the word families from the 2,000- to the 9,000-word-family levels.…
Descriptors: Reader Response, Vocabulary Development, Vocabulary Skills, Reading Habits
Avila, Hernán A. – HOW, 2016
This article introduces a pedagogical intervention that includes a set of creative activities designed to improve the oral and written production of students in the English classroom, especially those who have shown a lack of interest or attention. It was observed that participants initially seemed careless about studying the language. Eventually…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
Troia, Gary A. – Assessment for Effective Intervention, 2006
This article discusses methods for evaluating students' content-area literacy skills. Four specific factors that affect content-area literacy are described: vocabulary knowledge, topic knowledge, text structure knowledge, and textbook readability, along with methods of evaluating each of the factors. Most of these methods have not yet been…
Descriptors: Text Structure, Readability, Content Area Reading, Literacy
Beasley, Robert E.; Chuang, Yuangshan – Journal of Educational Technology Systems, 2006
The purpose of this investigation was to determine the effects of American music, lyrics, vocabulary definitions, and song explanations during online music study on listening comprehension, vocabulary acquisition, and lifestyle literacy in Taiwanese ESL learners. One-hundred-eight ESL learners from 2 large comprehensive universities in Taiwan…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Investigations, Definitions, Vocabulary Development
