Academic Language

Academic Language - What is it?

• The language needed by students to do the work in schools. It includes, for example, discipline-specific vocabulary, grammer and punctuation, and applications of rhetorical conventions and devices that are typical for a content area.
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Academic Language - Defined as...

• The oral language of a student
• The written language of a student
• The auditory language of a student
• The visual language of a student
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Academic Language: Six Levels...

• Level 1 - Entering
• Level 2 - Emerging
• Level 3 - Developing
• Level 4 - Expanding
• Level 5 - Bridging
• Level 6 - Reaching