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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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Linguistic Correlates of Second Language Literacy Development: Evidence from Middle-Grade Learner Essays
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Reynolds, Dudley W. – Journal of Second Language Writing, 2005
This paper compares the development of linguistic fluency in the writing of 5th-8th grade, U.S. students enrolled in English as a Second Language (ESL, n=189) and regular language arts (RLA, n=546) classes. Linguistic fluency is defined as the use of linguistic structures appropriate to rhetorical and social purposes and is measured using five…
Descriptors: Grade 5, Linguistics, Audiences, Literacy