The Language Demands of Analytical Reading and Writing at School

Full article available here: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/07410883221148727

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Analytical writing poses particularly challenging, yet often overlooked, language demands that need attention in educational research and practice. In this article, I discuss the Core Analytical Language Skills (CALS) construct and its relevance for school reading and writing. CALS refer to the set...

The secret life of connectives: a taxonomy to study individual differences in mid-adolescents’ use of connectives in writing to persuade

Full article available here: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11145-023-10425-3

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Mid-adolescence has been identified as a period of considerable potential growth in the language skills and practices that support reading and writing at school, but little research has examined mid-adolescents’ use...

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