Unit 4 -- Work Group Four

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Subject: Unit 4

Author:
Fernanda Pires

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Date Posted: 09:19:19 09/06/10 Mon

THE ARGUMENTATIVE ESSAY

Educators must focus on the academic language needed for academic achievement

INTRODUCTION (by Fernanda)
Many English language learners need to learn English at accelerated rates to perform on grade level. Fluency in social language is not enough to help close the achievement gaps that are often created by the lack of academic language. Educators must train their students to hear, harness, and own the academic language that they need for success. They also need to help English language learners develop a set of automatic strategies (learning habits) that they can use to acquire academic language in any setting. Educators must set up learning environments in which students feel safe to take risks with their envolving academic language.
Academic language is the linguistic glue that holds the tasks, texts, and tests of school together. If students cannot use this glue well, their work is likely to fall apart. In the article The Third Language of Academic English, Jeff Zwiers (2004) defines academic language as the set of words and phrases that (1) describe content-area knowledge and procedures, (2) express complex thinking processes and abstract concepts, and (3) create cohesion and clarity in written and oral discourse.

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