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Academic Language in Second Language Learning (Paperback, New)
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Academic Language in Second Language Learning (Paperback, New)
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Language in academic settings, also referred to academic language,
has gained attention in the field of second language learning owing
to new understandings of the complexities of language inherent in
learning academic content, and new efforts to assess English
learners' language proficiency in the context of school learning.
The concept of academic language as distinct from social language
has been in the academic literature since the mid-1950s, and
surfaced as a major construct in the field of bilingual education
in the 1980s. Many readers will be familiar with the ideas of BICS
and CALP, first introduced by Jim Cummins in the 1980s. This book
presents a critique of academic language as a separable construct
from social language, and introduces current research efforts to
understand how English learners interact, interpret, and show
understanding of language in academic contexts in ways that
re-think and go beyond the distinction between social and academic
language. The book is organized into three main sections, each with
a range of chapters that consider how academic language plays into
how children and youth learn academic content as emergent bilingual
students in school settings. A Foreward and Afterward offer
commentary on the book and its contents. The intended audience for
this book is graduate students, teacher educators, and researchers
interested in issues of language and content learning for English
learners, the new mainstream of schools across the nation. There is
something for a wide range of readers and students of second
language acquisition in this volume.
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