Investigating differences in language development and their association to comprehension, communication, and school achievement
We view monolingual and bi/multilingual language proficiencies as learned practices influenced by each individual's history of participation in specific socio-cultural discourses.
Research
The Language for Learning Research Team at the Harvard Graduate School of Education is engaged in exploring child and adolescent language development in a series of research projects that explore language for reading, writing, speaking, thinking and learning.
News and Publications
News
Publications
- Pedagogies of Voices. Radcliffe-funded Accelerator Workshop. Harvard University.
- English Learners’ acquisition of academic vocabulary: Instruction Matters, but so do word characteristics
- The Language for School Literacy: Widening the lens on language and reading relations during adolescence
- Levers for Learning: The relationship between school-level factors and literacy outcomes in low-income schools in Colombia
- El lenguaje académico como catalizador de la equidad en la educación escolar.
People
Paola Uccelli
Paola Uccelli is Professor of Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and the convener of the Language for Learning Research Team. With a background in linguistics, she studies socio-cultural and individual differences in students' language and literacy development throughout the school years.