So Beckford, a professor of English at CT State Community College-Tunxis, strives to shift that feeling. I f there’s been one ...

The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between learning to write and learning to perform school writing tasks. Data collection took place two to five times weekly over a 14-week ...

As more states and districts are embracing the “science of reading,” some educators and advocates have raised the question: Will these methods work for English-language learners? The “science of ...

Unlike the carefully scripted dialogue found in most books and movies, the language of everyday interaction tends to be messy and incomplete, full of false starts, interruptions, and people talking ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract The basics of child writing, as traditionally conceived, involve "neutral" conventions for organizing and encoding language. This "basic" ...

Teachers are a creative bunch. They have to be to come up with lesson plans and exams that help students grow their minds and prevent those same students from relying too much on technology to enhance ...

Schools are still required under federal and state law to help students who don’t speak English to both learn the language ...

Nearly 3 in 4 American classrooms now includes at least one English-language learner, and these students make up roughly 1 in 10 public school students. While their numbers continue to rise quickly, ...

Aida Vega’s 13-year-old daughter, who has attended Los Angeles schools since kindergarten and is in eighth grade, still struggles to read and write English. Vega has long pushed for extra help so her ...

Michelle Sheehan has received funding for her research and outreach activities from the British Academy, Language Acts and World Making and the Philological Society. According to a recent survey ...