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50 Years of ERIC
50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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Seeing the Invisible: Situating L2 Literacy Acquisition in Child-Teacher Interaction.
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Blanton, Linda Lonon – Journal of Second Language Writing, 2002
Revisits an earlier study on English-as-a Second-Language (ESL) children's emergence into literacy, which was conducted with 5- and 6-year olds at a multilingual K-12 school in Casablanca, Morocco. Discusses the notion of "synchronicity"--a dynamic oneness between teacher and child--as the distinguishing feature of three classrooms were…
Descriptors: Emergent Literacy, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries, Literacy
Discourse, Artifacts, and the Ozarks: Understanding Academic Literacy.
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Blanton, Linda Lonon – Journal of Second Language Writing, 1994
The preparation of second-language students for the academic mainstream is discussed. Consideration is given to the essential role of personal experience in learning, language acquisition, and academic reading/writing and to assessment of the implications for the English-as-a-Second-Language classroom. (Contains 56 references.) (Author/LB)
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, English (Second Language), Language Acquisition, Reading Skills