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Ruth Nelson; Kristen Nichols-Besel; Sarah Tahtinen-Pacheco – Journal of College Reading and Learning, 2024
The number of immigrant and international multilingual learners enrolling in postsecondary education is on the rise. With this growth, there remain difficulties in identifying and supporting multilingual learners moving from K-12 to college due to demographic data collection procedures at the postsecondary level. Postsecondary institutions are…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Bilingual Students, College Students, Urban Universities
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Eva Olsson – Language Teaching Research, 2025
Although research on content and language integrated learning (CLIL) has shown that CLIL instruction may enhance students' second or foreign language learning compared to regular foreign language instruction, there are also studies that have indicated similar language development between CLIL and non-CLIL students. However, CLIL can be organized…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Mir Afzal Tajik; Syed Abdul Manan; Uli Schamiloglu; Gulnara Namyssova – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2024
This study investigated multilingual students' linguistic challenges at English-medium instruction (EMI) universities in Kazakhstan. Using language policy and planning as a theoretical lens, this study looked at EMI policy in general, particularly the academic English challenges of students due to a haphazard implementation of the EMI policy in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Language of Instruction
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Wang, Jianli; Qin, Limin Tony – International Journal of Educational Reform, 2022
This paper reports on a pilot course responding to facilitating academic writing for an academic writing program implemented at a provincial key university in China. Taken from an activity theoretical perspective, it discusses the practical experience collected during a pilot process of designing, implementing, and assessing a genre-based approach…
Descriptors: Academic Language, Writing Evaluation, Graduate Students, English for Academic Purposes
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Corrin, William; Zhu, Pei; Shih, Miki; Brown, Kevin Thaddeus, Jr.; Teres, Jed; Darrow, Catherine; Nichols, Austin; Lack, Kelly – National Center for Education Evaluation and Regional Assistance, 2022
These are the appendices for the report "The Effects of an Academic Language Program on Student Reading Outcomes." This study investigated WordGen Elementary, a program designed to improve fourth- and fifth-grade students' ability to understand and communicate academic language and their general reading skill. The program provider…
Descriptors: Academic Language, Reading Programs, Program Effectiveness, Reading Achievement
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Davis, Kathryn L.; Wash, Pamela D. – Journal of Physical Education, Recreation & Dance, 2019
Very few articles, chapters or professional presentations exist that are devoted to implementing the Teacher Performance Assessment (edTPA) within physical education teacher education (PETE) programs. Given the climate of high-stakes assessment permeating both K-12 schools and educator preparation programs, it is encouraging to know that the best…
Descriptors: Teacher Evaluation, Performance Based Assessment, Physical Education Teachers, Teacher Education
Francine M. Johnson – ProQuest LLC, 2020
Grounded in sociocultural notions of teaching and learning, this qualitative case study examines the practices of 10th-grade English as a Second Language (ESL) and English Language Arts (ELA) co-teachers to promote the academic language and literacy development of their shared students, including English learners (ELs), never-ELs, and fluent…
Descriptors: High School Teachers, Language Teachers, Language Arts, Teacher Collaboration
Griffith, David – Thomas B. Fordham Institute, 2018
The Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts and Literacy (CCSS-ELA) were adopted by approximately forty states (though in some cases, with significant revisions). However, researchers are still trying to understand how teachers are implementing the CCSS-ELA at the ground level--that is, in actual ELA classrooms. The CCSS-ELA call for…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, Writing Instruction, Common Core State Standards, Educational Change
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Tang, Shifang; Tong, Fuhui; Irby, Beverly J.; Lara-Alecio, Rafael; Guerrero, Cindy – Bilingual Research Journal, 2020
Using a low-inference observation instrument, we investigated the effect of an ongoing, intensive, and structured virtual professional development (VPD) based on the fidelity of implementation (FOI) across treatment and control conditions in a randomized controlled trial validation study implemented in 116-bilingual classrooms in seven Texas…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Bilingual Teachers, Bilingual Education, Computer Simulation