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Prof. Paola Uccelli spoke about language skills in the Peruvian school context at Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, a s part of the DARI cycle of international talks. More details about the talk can be found here.

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...

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Barr, C., Phillips Galloway, E., & Uccelli, P. ( 2019 ). Design and validation of a construct to capture the academic language skills that support text understanding. Language Learning: A Journal of Research in Language Studies. doi: 10.1111/lang.12365

By Jill Anderson Small Wonders features learning games based on everyday activities

For years, we’ve thought that the answer to boosting adolescent reading comprehension lay in building students’ vocabulary. Teens often struggle with the jargon and advanced terminology they encounter as they move into middle and high school, so educators...

Paola Uccelli has been promoted from associate professor to full professor of education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Uccelli’s background in linguistics has afforded her a unique perspective on studying socio-cultural and individual...

By Emily Phillips Galloway, Paola Uccelli & Christina Dobbs https://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2017/11/15/we-need-to-teach-students… Last month, former Presidents Barack Obama and George W. Bush separately issued bipartisan calls to abandon...