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Language, Language Development and Teaching English to Emergent Bilingual Users: Challenging the Common Knowledge Theory in Teacher Education & K-12 School Settings
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Faltis, Christian – Journal of the Association of Mexican American Educators, 2013
Popular views about language and how children and youth learn language are based mainly in cognitive approaches in support of a common knowledge theory of language development. This common theory feeds into the efforts to increase teacher and learner accountability as measured on narrow assessments of what it means to use language well and in…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Linguistic Theory, Bilingualism