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The Language Demands of Analytical Reading and Writing at School

April 10, 2023

The Language Demands of Analytical Reading and Writing at School

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

 

Abstract

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...

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Andreev & Uccelli (2023)

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

April 10, 2023

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

Abstract

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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Pedagogies of voice event

Pedagogies of Voice: Re-imagining the Role of Languages in Education for a World on the Move

March 31, 2022

Paola Uccelli, Harvard Graduate School of Education
Veronica Boix Mansilla, Harvard Graduate School of Education

The proposed workshop will generate an interdisciplinary pedagogical framework and research agenda to guide how to leverage all students’ linguistic and cultural resources to maximize their learning potential and contribute to more equitable and inclusive communities. Deliberately interdisciplinary, this workshop will merge insights across four research areas that are rarely put in dialogue with one another: (1) migration and...

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NEWS FROM OUR PARTNERS - Perú: La Deuda con la Educación Rural

April 21, 2021

"We need policies with a focus on education equity to guarantee that all students can continue in school." With the gradual return to face-to-face classes, Francesca Uccelli, principal investigator of the Instituto de Estudios Peruanos, Perú, and current president of the Peruvian Educational Research Society, talked about rural education (full video HERE)....

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New Publication: Broadening the Lens on the Science of Reading

October 14, 2020

Broadening the Lens on the Science of Reading: A Multifaceted Perspective on the Role of Academic Language in Text Understanding is published in Reading Research Quarterly. 

Merging evidence from psychological models of reading comprehension, ethnographic research on language and literacy, and textual linguistics lines of research, the authors take the position that psychological models of reading comprehension often overlook written language comprehension and production as context‐embedded, sociocultural processes. Using the example of academic language...

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