#  Language For Learning 

 



##  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.



 

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## 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.



 

  [### The Language of Written Argumentation and Explanation: Individual Developmental Trajectories From 4th to 8th Grade

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   [### Core Academic Language Skills (CALS) Assessment Design and Development

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   [### Aprender a Estudar: Supporting fourth-grade teachers to prepare lifelong readers and learners

 ](/core-academic-language-skills-cals-assessment-design-and-development) [more information coming soon] 

 

 

  

 

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##  News 

 



  [### Languages for Relating: Piloting an Innovative Learning Framework in Multilingual Classrooms

 ](/news/languages-relating-piloting-innovative-learning-framework-multilingual) August 15, 2024 

 The L4R Project is a Spencer-funded research study motivated by the urgent need to transform how languages are understood and used for learning in multilingual classrooms to achieve equity and excellence for all. L4R is an innovative, theoretically rooted... 

 

 

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   [### Bridging Sciences: An Integrated Approach to Supporting Student Literacy Development

 ](/news/bridging-sciences-integrated-approach-supporting-student-literacy) August 02, 2024 

 [https://casel.org/student-literacy\_white-paper/](https://casel.org/student-literacy_white-paper/) Pearson, P. D., Salinger, T., Lee, C. D., Uccelli, P., Alexander, P., Vogt, M., Immordino-Yang, M., et al. (2024). Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning (CASEL). 

 

 

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##  Publications 

 



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### Working Paper

Uccelli, V. , P. & Boix Mansilla. (n.d.). *[Pedagogies of Voices. Radcliffe-funded Accelerator Workshop. Harvard University.](/publications/uccelli-p-boix-mansilla-v-2020-pedagogies-voices-radcliffe-funded)*



 

 

Uccelli, V. , P. & Boix Mansilla. (n.d.). *[Pedagogies of Voices. Radcliffe-funded Accelerator Workshop. Harvard University.](/publications/uccelli-p-boix-mansilla-v-2020-pedagogies-voices-radcliffe-funded)*



 

 

 

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### 2024

Pearson, P., Salinger, T., Lee, C., Uccelli, P., Alexander, P., Vogt, M., Immordino-Yang, M., Osher, D., Jagers, R., Fenwick, L., & Steele, L. (2024). [Bridging Sciences: An Integrated Approach to Supporting Student Literacy Development](https://casel.org/student-literacy_white-paper/). *Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning*.



 

 

Pearson, P., Salinger, T., Lee, C., Uccelli, P., Alexander, P., Vogt, M., Immordino-Yang, M., Osher, D., Jagers, R., Fenwick, L., & Steele, L. (2024). [Bridging Sciences: An Integrated Approach to Supporting Student Literacy Development](https://casel.org/student-literacy_white-paper/). *Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning*.



 

 

 

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### 2016

Uccelli, P., & Rowe, M. (2016). [Semantic development: Learning the Meanings of Words](/publications/semantic-development-learning-meanings-words). In J. Berko-Gleason & N. B. Ratner (Eds.), *The development of language*. Boston, MA: Allyn and Bacon/Merrill.



 

 

Uccelli, P., & Rowe, M. (2016). [Semantic development: Learning the Meanings of Words](/publications/semantic-development-learning-meanings-words). In J. Berko-Gleason & N. B. Ratner (Eds.), *The development of language*. Boston, MA: Allyn and Bacon/Merrill.



 

 

 

 

 



### 2023

Meneses, A., Uccelli, P., & Valeri, L. (2023). [Teacher Talk and Literacy Gains in Chilean Elementary Students: Teacher Participation, Lexical Diversity, and Instructional Non-present Talk](/publications/teacher-talk-and-literacy-gains-chilean-elementary-students). *Linguistics and Education*, *73*(101145).



 

 

Meneses, A., Uccelli, P., & Valeri, L. (2023). [Teacher Talk and Literacy Gains in Chilean Elementary Students: Teacher Participation, Lexical Diversity, and Instructional Non-present Talk](/publications/teacher-talk-and-literacy-gains-chilean-elementary-students). *Linguistics and Education*, *73*(101145).



 

 

 

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Uccelli, P. (2023). [The language demands of analytical reading and writing at school](https://doi.org/10.1177/07410883221148727). *Written Communication*, *40*(2).



 

 

Uccelli, P. (2023). [The language demands of analytical reading and writing at school](https://doi.org/10.1177/07410883221148727). *Written Communication*, *40*(2).



 

 

 

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##  Resources 

 



 [### Strategic Educational Research Partnership (SERP)

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 [### Wenjuan Qin and her team at Fudan University

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##  People 

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### 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.



 



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