Sentences with phrase «english academic discourse»
There are students who sound fluent in English, who can carry on conversations, but lack the fluency in English academic discourse to access complicated content or to express their understandings.
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This session describes how school administrators, a speech pathologist, and an English - language learner specialist trained staff to increase student language skills and academic achievement through school - wide discourse.
Teachers of special populations will especially appreciate Buckley's successful strategies for reaching English language learners and children from high - poverty homes who may not have strong foundations for academic discourse.
Studies that investigated the role of classroom discourse and other forms of scaffolding describe how teachers mediate between students» current English abilities and levels of science understanding and the more academic English and science knowledge being targeted (Gibbons, 2003; Parkinson, Jackson, Kirkwood, & Padayachee, 2007; Young & Nguyen, 2002).