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 …

Academic English (AE) refers to the language used in school to help students acquire and
use knowledge. This article reviews current literature to determine what is known about the …

Despite the current theoretical momentum for the importance of academic English and the
acknowledgment that academic materials increase in complexity through the grades, little …

The interaction between academic language and academic content continues to challenge
teachers, researchers, and policy makers. As early as the 1980's Cummins (1986), Skutnabb …

The authors examined the role of an intervention designed to increase reading
comprehension, reading self-efficacy beliefs, and engagement in social studies for middle …

This formative experiment explored the extent to which two instructional frameworks that
varied in the explicitness of academic vocabulary instruction, comprehension strategy …

This chapter attempts to integrate seemingly conflicting theoretical conceptions of school
language learning by offering a literature review driven by two goals:(1) to synthesize how …

This study investigated the influence of general vocabulary knowledge, science vocabulary
knowledge, and text based questioning on the science reading comprehension of three …

BiSpra 2-4 ist ein Test zur Erfassung bildungssprachlicher Kompetenzen von
Grundschulkindern der Jahrgangsstufen 2 bis 4. Er umfasst drei Untertests, die sich auf das …

Academic writing is a mainstay of expression in secondary schools. However, many
students think of academic writing in terms of local operations that include spelling …