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Cooper, Ayanna – Teachers College Record, 2020
Background: The number of students identified as English learners (ELs) in the U.S. has risen in the last two decades. Approximately 10% of the K-12 student population is identified as ELs. These students are not a monolithic group. They come from diverse ethnic groups, home languages, socioeconomic statuses, backgrounds, and experiences.…
Descriptors: English Language Learners, African American Students, Elementary School Students, Secondary School Students
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Murphy, Greer A. – Journal of College and Character, 2022
This article reviews three decades of scholarship to establish connection(s) between language diversity and integrity research. It makes the case that by shifting the vocabulary, methods, and scope of our work, we scholar-practitioners and integrity professionals become better able to equitably support multilingual learners in their writing from…
Descriptors: Integrity, Cheating, Plagiarism, Multilingualism
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Constant Leung – Critical Inquiry in Language Studies, 2023
The notion of language proficiency in English Language Teaching (ELT), as an internationalized educational enterprise, has tended to be operationalized in terms of stable lexicogrammar and enduring normative patterns of social use. It will be argued that this 'established' stability has been challenged by the scholarship in several fields of…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Proficiency
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Hernberg, Stacey – BC TEAL Journal, 2020
In British Columbia's K-12 schools, five years of funded English Language Learning support is frequently not enough to help English language learners fully develop their English language proficiency. This critical analysis examines the literature on metacognition and language learning to find practical metacognitive instructional features to equip…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Metacognition, Second Language Learning, English Language Learners
Paola Uccelli – Written Communication, 2023
Analytical writing poses particularly challenging, yet often overlooked, language demands that need attention in educational research and practice. In this article, I discuss the Core Analytical Language Skills (CALS) construct and its relevance for school reading and writing. CALS refer to the set of learners' school-relevant language resources…
Descriptors: Academic Language, Reading Skills, Writing Skills, Reading Materials
Clementine Pippa Ebel – Higher Education Policy Institute, 2024
This paper is an overview of key integration challenges facing Chinese students at UK higher education institutions (HEIs). It responds to recent admissions diversification strategies launched by UK institutions as well as increasingly critical narratives surrounding Chinese students. The independently researched report argues that students from…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Foreign Students, Asians, Student Adjustment
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Gotti, Maurizio – Language Learning in Higher Education, 2020
The recent developments concerning the use of foreign languages in the academic world have strongly favoured English, which has become the preferred medium for international communication in many contexts. This spread of English as a lingua franca has had relevant implications for teaching and research purposes, due to the need for a common…
Descriptors: English for Special Purposes, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Official Languages
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Thompson, Gregory A.; Watkins, Kathryn – Language and Education, 2021
In this article we critically evaluate the case made by proponents of academic language (AL) that AL is functionally necessary for schooling due to specific functional advantages of AL. We consider three examples of AL introduced by AL proponents in order to show (1) that AL proponents have been too quick to accept the ALH, (2) that functional…
Descriptors: Academic Language, Language Variation, Language Attitudes, Language of Instruction
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Maunsell, Matthias – CATESOL Journal, 2019
Academic reading at college and university poses a real challenge for international students with English as a second language. Often the main hurdles are a lack of language proficiency, critical-reading skills, or background knowledge. Also, unfamiliarity with cultural and academic conventions plays a role. Even with intensive English-language…
Descriptors: Prereading Experience, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Otto, Ana – Latin American Journal of Content and Language Integrated Learning, 2018
Assessment is one of the most contested topics in Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) because of the duality between content and language, and the lack of official guidelines and research on this matter. Furthermore, as CLIL is an umbrella term portraying different realities, it is essential to consider the educational contexts in…
Descriptors: Course Content, Language of Instruction, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Improving vocabulary and reading comprehension is critical to students' academic success, particularly for English learners who may have less exposure to academic language than native English-speaking students. "Word Generation" is a supplemental program that aims to improve students' reading comprehension by building students'…
Descriptors: English Language Learners, Vocabulary, Reading Comprehension, Academic Language
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Improving vocabulary and reading comprehension is critical to students' academic success, particularly for English learners who may have less exposure to academic language than native English-speaking students. "Word Generation" is a supplemental program that aims to improve students' reading comprehension by building students'…
Descriptors: English Language Learners, Vocabulary, Reading Comprehension, Academic Language
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What Works Clearinghouse, 2020
Improving vocabulary and reading comprehension is critical to students' academic success, particularly for English learners who may have less exposure to academic language than native English-speaking students. "Word Generation" is a supplemental program that aims to improve students' reading comprehension by building students'…
Descriptors: English Language Learners, Vocabulary, Reading Comprehension, Academic Language
Cummins, Jim – Multilingual Matters, 2021
Over the past 40 years, Jim Cummins has proposed a number of highly influential theoretical concepts, including the threshold and interdependence hypotheses and the distinction between conversational fluency and academic language proficiency. In this book, he provides a personal account of how these ideas developed and he examines the credibility…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Teaching Methods, Linguistic Theory, Language Fluency
Molle, Daniella; Wilfrid, Jennifer; MacDonald, Rita; Westerlund, Ruslana; Spalter, Amanda – Wisconsin Center for Education Research, 2022
This paper discusses the purpose and content of the WIDA Framework for Equitable Instruction (FEI). The FEI is an instruction-focused resource designed to promote the equitable engagement in disciplinary learning and language development of multilingual learners. It complements the WIDA English Language Development Standards Framework in that it…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Equal Education, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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