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August, Diane; Shanahan, Timothy – Journal of Literacy Research, 2010
The purpose of this article is to respond to a review of the report "Developing Literacy in Second-language Learners: Report of the National Literacy Panel on Language Minority Children and Youth," written by our respected colleague Kathy Escamilla, which appeared in a recent edition of the "Journal of Literacy Research." This will also give us…
Descriptors: Literacy Education, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Language Minorities
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Shanahan, Cynthia; Shanahan, Timothy; Misischia, Cynthia – Journal of Literacy Research, 2011
The purpose of this study is to describe educationally relevant differences in literacy use among three subject-matter disciplines--history, chemistry, and mathematics. These analyses were drawn from an investigation of the teaching of disciplinary literacy in high schools. The purpose of the overall project was to improve the literacy-teaching…
Descriptors: Literacy, Differences, Intellectual Disciplines, History