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Direct linkHumphrey, Sally; Macnaught, Lucy – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2016
In this article the authors report on the use of a scaffolding pedagogy (Gibbons, 2009), informed by systemic functional linguistics, to support the writing of English language learners in middle years curriculum learning. They focus on the work of one teacher and her English class across the first 18 months of a longitudinal design-based literacy…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Teaching Methods
Fisher, Douglas; Lapp, Diane – Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 2013
In this article, we focus on instructional support for 91 students who speak African American Vernacular English and who are at high risk for not passing the required state exams. We profile the instruction that was provided and the results from that instruction, providing examples of how students' language was scaffolded such that they could code…
Descriptors: Black Dialects, African American Culture, At Risk Students, State Standards
