Investigating differences in language development and their association to comprehension, communication, and school achievement

We view monolingual and bi/multilingual language proficiencies as learned practices influenced by each individual's history of participation in specific socio-cultural discourses.

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The Language for Learning Research Team at the Harvard Graduate School of Education is engaged in exploring child and adolescent language development in a series of research projects that explore language for reading, writing, speaking, thinking and learning.

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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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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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Paola Uccelli

Paola Uccelli is Professor of Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and the convener of the Language for Learning Research Team. With a background in linguistics, she studies socio-cultural and individual differences in students' language and literacy development throughout the school years.