Reconsidering Academic Language in Practice

Efforts to improve educational outcomes for English learners often focus on “academic language,” but unfortunately the field lacks a clear, agreed-upon definition of the concept. This article reports on a design research study that focused on students' engagement in one academic practice over several months: reading and discussing expository science texts in Spanish. By looking closely at one practice, the research provides a grounded perspective on academic language and the bilingual resources that English learners bring to academic tasks

Academic writing · Bilingual education · English for academic purposes · Focus (optics · Linguistics · Mathematics education · Pedagogy · Perspective (graphical · Reading (process · Reading comprehension · Computer Science · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies · EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning · Psychology · Second Language Learning and Teaching

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