#  Research 

 



#  Research 

 

 

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Our research in the U.S. and abroad seeks to understand why so many adolescents struggle with literacy and how to design contexts that offer meaningful learning experiences to advance equity and excellence in literacy and learning for all. Our research reveals that language development varies across contexts and individuals and continues throughout adolescence.

Our results make visible to educators and researchers the ubiquitous, yet often invisible, language demands of the particular sociocultural practices of school literacy and learning.



 

##  Research Categories 

 



 [### Young children’s discourse development: Sociocultural and individual differences

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 [### The language for school reading: Core Academic Language Skills (CALS)

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 [### The language for school writing: Monolingual and EFL writers

 ](/language-school-writing-monolingual-and-efl-writing-across-contexts) 

 

 [### Multilingual and multicultural learners: Development in more than one language

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 [### Educational practices & interventions: Promoting learners’ voices

 ](/educational-practices-and-interventions-promoting-learners%E2%80%99-voices-us-abroad) 

 

 [### Language for Learning: Towards a language learning theory relevant for education

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