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Direct linkBunch, George C.; Shaw, Jerome M.; Geaney, Edward R. – Language and Education, 2010
We report on the development and use of an analytical framework designed to articulate the language demands English learners (ELs) encounter on performance assessments such as those used in inquiry-based science classrooms. The Science Assessment Language Demands (SALD) Framework, grounded in functional and interactional views of language and…
Descriptors: Performance Based Assessment, Science Tests, Second Language Learning, Language Skills
Download full textStover, Katie; Yearta, Lindsay Sheronick; Sease, Rachel – Journal of Language and Literacy Education, 2014
Considering the digital landscape of the 21st century classroom, it is paramount that teacher education programs prepare preservice teachers to incorporate technology into their classrooms to engage in communicative and collaborative acts as readers and writers. This collective case study was conducted to explore what happened when nine preservice…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Preservice Teachers, Technology Integration, Teacher Student Relationship
Saunders, Jane M. – Journal of Language and Literacy Education, 2013
This piece describes how a 5th grade language arts teacher employed technology to create and sustain a metaphorical, virtual, and physical figured world in her class by means of a web site called "The Hive Society." This world positioned students as intellectuals and scholars, and explored how Ms. Smith integrated 21st Century…
Descriptors: Language Arts, Grade 5, Technology Uses in Education, Web Sites
Youngs, Suzette; Serafini, Frank – Journal of Language and Literacy Education, 2013
Classroom discussions of multimodal texts, in particular historical fiction picturebooks, offer an interpretive space where readers are positioned to construct meanings in transaction with the written language, visual images, and design elements created by authors, illustrators and publishers (Serafini & Ladd, 2008; Sipe, 1999). This study was…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Discussion (Teaching Technique), History, Fiction
Feinauer, Erika; Whiting, Erin F. – Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, 2012
This study examined the sociolinguistic contexts of neighborhoods and schools in two predominantly Latino communities in the United States. We used census data to assess social and ethnic composition and observational data to compare and contrast environmental print, language use, and availability of community services in Spanish in these schools…
Descriptors: Community Services, Neighborhoods, Ethnicity, Sociolinguistics
Rojas-Drummond, Sylvia; Zapata, Margarita Peon – Language and Education, 2004
The study analyses the effects of training primary school children in the use of a linguistic tool called "Exploratory Talk" (ET) on their capacity for argumentation. ET allows for reasoned confrontation and negotiation of points of view, making the reasoning visible in the talk. Eighty-eight Mexican children from the 5th and 6th grades of primary…
Descriptors: Persuasive Discourse, Mexicans, Thinking Skills, Grade 5
