There is a growing awareness of the importance of academic vocabulary, and more
generally, of academic language proficiency, for students' success in school. There is also a …

This review summarizes features of professional development programs that aim to prepare
in-service teachers to improve students' academic language proficiency when teaching …

This article presents our new Academic Vocabulary List (AVL), derived from a 120-million-
word academic subcorpus of the 425-million-word Corpus of Contemporary American …

Every teacher seeks to be an effective teacher. Every teacher wants to have a positive,
remarkable, and lasting influence on students' lives. But what makes for an effective …

Words Their Way's developmentally-driven, hands-on instructional approach has been a
phenomenon in word study, providing a practical way to study words with students. The keys …

Success in school calls for using language in new ways to accomplish increasingly
challenging discursive tasks across grade levels and school subjects. As children develop …

Vocabulary is the kernel for all language skills; it helps learners to interact with the speakers
of that language. This study aims to scrutinize the effect of a short story on developing …

Abstract Gough and Tunmer's (1986) simple view of reading (SVR) proposed that reading
comprehension (RC) is a function of language comprehension (LC) and word …

The association between vocabulary knowledge and reading comprehension has been
extensively researched. However, modeling the contribution of vocabulary knowledge within …

Abstract The Academic Word List (AWL)(Coxhead, 2000) is widely used in preparing non-
native speakers for academic courses, and it is thought that the words in this list are …