Academic Language in Second Language Learning

Author:   Christian J. Faltis ,  M. Beatriz Arias
Publisher:   Information Age Publishing
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9781623961152


Pages:   248
Publication Date:   30 January 2013
Format:   Hardback
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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 organised 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 Foreword and Afterword 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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Author:   Christian J. Faltis ,  M. Beatriz Arias
Publisher:   Information Age Publishing
Imprint:   Information Age Publishing
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.532kg
ISBN:  

9781623961152


ISBN 10:   1623961157
Pages:   248
Publication Date:   30 January 2013
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In stock   Availability explained
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Christian J. Faltis, University of California, Davis, USA. M. Beatriz Arias, Arizona State University, USA.

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