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Humphrey, 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
Scales, Alice M., Ed.; Peebles, James D., Ed. – 1979
Eight papers addressing a variety of issues in communication skills and language arts instruction are contained in this document. Among the topics covered in the eight papers are the following: (1) language structure in teaching reading, (2) issues of dialect-specific materials, (3) language mismatch in the reading classroom, (4) miscue analysis,…
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, Communication Skills, Educational Technology, Elementary Secondary Education