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Direct linkAnn Hill Thornton – ProQuest LLC, 2019
At Grand Intermediate School, teachers work with a large population of English language learners (ELL). The teachers were all trained to use the Sheltered Instruction Observation Protocol Model (Echevarria, Vogt, and Short, 2017) to help ELL students increase their English fluency and succeed academically. The instructional strategies in place,…
Descriptors: Technology Integration, Teaching Methods, Academic Achievement, English Language Learners
Peer reviewedWood, Carla; Schatschneider, Christopher – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2022
The aims of the current project were to: (1) describe average change in the use of academic words across the school year in writing and (2) examine potential predictors of growth in academic word use in response to morphology-focused supplemental instruction. Investigators utilized written expository responses of 824 students in 5th grade before…
Descriptors: Morphology (Languages), Academic Language, Language Usage, Second Language Learning
Ester Garcia – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Individuals with lower proficiency in a second language tend to produce more disfluent speech patterns in the second language. Speech disfluencies refer to interruptions in the forward flow of speech and are distinct from the colloquial use of "fluency," to characterize knowledge of a language. Prior research indicates that some speech…
Descriptors: Language Proficiency, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Spanish
Colleen Lee Smith – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The nature of this research study examines the relationship between text-talking and writing skills used by American Sign Language (ASL) and English speakers. When given ample opportunity to text-talk in academic settings, it is likely that students will improve their expressive communication and writing skills. The main research question asks:…
Descriptors: Grade 5, Elementary School Students, American Sign Language, Writing Skills
Download full textWeih, Timothy G. – Online Submission, 2018
Teaching intermediate grade children how to write means teaching them how to write the alphabetical letters, words, lists, phrases, sentences, paragraphs, narrative text, expository text, and writing mechanics (punctuation & grammar). Teaching writing for meaning is teaching children how to express their thoughts in writing, this is the…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Content Area Writing, Elementary School Students, Intermediate Grades
Malebese, M. L. – South African Journal of Education, 2019
Socially inclusive strategies encourage empowering, progressive and sustainable responses to social challenges and needs. These strategies are made possible through inclusion and equitable consideration of diverse contributions of those affected by the problems, and who feel obliged to find solutions to the problems. In this paper, the principles…
Descriptors: Participatory Research, Action Research, Discourse Analysis, Listening Skills
