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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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Developing Cognitive Academic Language Proficiency: The Journey
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Roessingh, Hetty; Kover, Pat; Watt, David – TESL Canada Journal, 2005
This study tracks the development of cognitive academic language proficiency of 47 academically competent high school ESL learners of differing age on arrival (AOA) who received instructed ESL support and one comparison group of six young arrivals who received little if any ESL support during their educational experiences. Although intake and…
Descriptors: Academic Discourse, Educational Experience, Language Proficiency, English (Second Language)
Variability of ESL Learners' Acquisition of Cognitive Academic Language Proficiency: What Can We Learn from Achievement Measures?
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Roessingh, Hetty; Kover, Pat – TESL Canada Journal, 2003
With the revamping of the Canada Immigration Act in 1985, the demographic profile of new arrivals to Canada took a marked shift to place a priority on better educated, business-class immigrants. Most of these immigrants are from the Pacific Rim, and they have high expectations for the academic achievement of their children in the Canadian school.…
Descriptors: Academic Discourse, Academic Achievement, Foreign Countries, Grade 12
Working with Younger-Arriving ESL Learners in High School English: Never Too Late To Reclaim Potential.
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Roessingh, Hetty; Kover, Pat – TESL Canada Journal, 2002
Discusses the fallacies that pervade the English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) profession: that students arriving in primary school do not require ESL support in order to mainstream successfully. Describes a program designed to help younger-arriving ESL learners once they reach high school, with powerful implications for practice in all K-12…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, English (Second Language), High Schools, Mainstreaming