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Academic language

Academic language. A guide for middle school teachers Nonie Lesaux, PHD Sky Marietta, MAT, EdD Emily Phillips Galloway, MSEd. Agenda. What is “academic language?” How does academic language intersect with conversational skills? What are key instructional levers for academic language?.

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Academic language

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  1. Academic language A guide for middle school teachers Nonie Lesaux, PHD Sky Marietta, MAT, EdD Emily Phillips Galloway, MSEd

  2. Agenda • What is “academic language?” • How does academic language intersect with conversational skills? • What are key instructional levers for academic language?

  3. What might be challenging about this text? • What background knowledge does the reader need to support comprehension? • Anything else you are struck by?

  4. What is Academic Language (AL)?

  5. Academic Language: A BIG problem space

  6. AL: A Register Perspective Register:constellation of lexical and grammatical features that are used to support communicate in certain contexts (Halliday & Hassan, 1989; Schleppegrell, 2001: 431-432) Learning to read and use academic language requires learning a new ‘register’ of language that allows for participants in academic settings to communicate information in ways that are more precise and concise. • Hail+ Sleet +Rain + Snow= Precipitation (concise) • Thing= Type =Kind= Species (precise)

  7. AL: One of many registers Activity Think About: Who are you as a language user? Write or Draw: Onthe provided web ‘map’ your own language resources. Share: With the colleagues at your table, share your ‘linguistic self.’ Phillips-Galloway & Dobbs (2012)

  8. Learning from ourselves as language users….

  9. Language: Different Tools For Different Communicative Goals The colloquial language that students use at home is a valuable resource for building relationships, communicating emotions and forging a social identity. Phillips-Galloway & Dobbs (2012)

  10. Language: Different Tools For Different Communicative Goals At school, adolescents need a particular set of linguistic tools for discussing abstract ideas. Phillips-Galloway & Dobbs (2012)

  11. Rhetorical Flexibility: The instructional end goal The goal of AL instruction is to equip students with the ability to use a wider set of language forms and functions for an increasing variety of social contexts, including at school (Ravid & Tolchinsky, 2002). Phillips-Galloway & Dobbs (2012)

  12. Putting ideas to practice

  13. 3 Key Instructional Levers for Promoting Academic Language

  14. Instructional Lever #1: Make tasks cognitively challenging AND context embedded

  15. Instructional Lever #2: Teach Language Through Content

  16. Instructional Lever #3: Co-construction of content and language knowledge through talk

  17. Accommodating Linguistically Diverse Students

  18. RTI Model for ELL Academic Success Lesaux, Marietta, & Phillips Galloway Closing and Reflection

  19. Closing Discussion

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