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Effective Professional Development for Teachers to Foster Students' Academic Language Proficiency across the Curriculum: A Systematic Review
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Kalinowski, Eva; Gronostaj, Anna; Vock, Miriam – AERA Open, 2019
This review summarizes features of professional development programs that aim to prepare in-service teachers to improve students' academic language proficiency when teaching subject areas. The 38 studies reviewed suggest that all of the profiled interventions were effective to some extent. The programs share many characteristics considered…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Language Proficiency, Inservice Teacher Education, Program Effectiveness
Evaluating a Novel CALL Tool for the Development of Oracy and Academic Language in Young English Language Learners
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Feroce, Nick; Liu, Jenny; Chattergoon, Rajendra – Research-publishing.net, 2022
This study examines the relationship between English language proficiency outcomes and the use of a Computer-Assisted Language Learning (CALL) tool that is designed to strengthen the academic English and oral proficiency skills of young English Learners (ELs). We compare scores on a standardized English language proficiency assessment for 2,034…
Descriptors: Oral Language, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Teaching Methods
Examining the Impacts of Extended Vocabulary Instruction in Mixed-English-Proficiency Science Classrooms
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Van Orman, Dustin S. J.; Ardasheva, Yuliya; Carbonneau, Kira J.; Firestone, Jonah B. – Journal of Educational Research, 2021
Vocabulary is a building block of understanding, especially in science classrooms where language abilities are mixed. To reduce academic inequalities, approaches to vocabulary instruction need to demonstrate benefits for students across learning contexts. We summarize the results from the first unit, "Earth Systems and Catastrophic…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Academic Language, Science Instruction, Earth Science
The Effectiveness and Transferability of a Block-Mode Discipline-Specific Academic Language Development Program. A Practice Report
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Yeo, Joseph; O'Donoghue, Gemma – Student Success, 2023
To address the demands from their courses, students with insufficient language proficiency who cannot attend the standard subject-specific academic language development program are directed to an alternative discipline-specific program -- the Language Development Tutorial in Block mode, at the University of Technology Sydney. This practice report…
Descriptors: Language Proficiency, Academic Language, Universities, English for Academic Purposes
Development and Promise of a Vocabulary Intelligent Tutoring System for Second-Grade Latinx English Learners
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Baker, Doris Luft; Ma, Hao; Polanco, Paul; Conry, Jillian Marie; Kamata, Akihito; Al Otaiba, Stephanie; Ward, Wayne; Cole, Ron – Journal of Research on Technology in Education, 2021
We examine the promise, usability, and feasibility of an intelligent tutoring system (ITS) to improve the vocabulary and language proficiency in science and social studies of Latinx second grade English learners (ELs). Participants were 217 ELs attending English only programs or bilingual programs. Findings from the clustered randomized control…
Descriptors: Hispanic American Students, Elementary School Students, Grade 2, Vocabulary Development
The EUniTA Project: Working with International Partners to Develop Language, Intercultural, and Professional Competencies in European University Students
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Cunico, Sonia – Research-publishing.net, 2019
Language tandem exchanges offer students valuable opportunities for autonomous learning and authentic intercultural communication encounters. This paper will discuss the key principles of tandem language exchange, and in particular online ones, and then present the EU-funded European University Tandem (EUniTa) project which was developed by…
Descriptors: Program Descriptions, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Foreign Countries