Academic Language
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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